Damn! I must be the only old, white, straight, southern, fairly well off, male, veteran ...

[11 Bravo]

in the whole fucking country who voted for President Obama! FoxNews, Pigboy, and Paul Ryan all say so. (And I'm not even "urban"!)

[OKNancy]

1. Thanks...

I got a giggle out of this one.

[unblock]

2. got me beat. my claim to the south is 7 years in texas and vet status, just 3 weeks on a destroyer.

but then i'm jewish so demographically speaking, that makes my obama votes more obvious....

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. Well ...

I'm an African-American ... Oh, nevermind!

[11 Bravo]

5. Did you have to go and pick up your "free stuff", or did it come in the mail?

[1StrongBlackMan]

19. It was stuffed in the trunk ...

of the Cadillac, parked out in front of the welfare office, that I was in picking up my foodstamps that I planned to use to buy steak, lobster, cigarettes and malt liquor. Fortunately, I found out about it on the free phone that President Obama provided me, personally, just before I didn't have to go to work.

Thanks for asking!

[MoonchildCA]

44. That's funny stuff!

[loyalsister]

48. OMG!!!

I have to steal that!

[Wait Wut]

4. Nuh uh...

...I can think of three right off the bat. They must be 'mistaken'...or sumthin'.

[AnnaLee]

6. I told my husband, an old white man,->

that I hate old white men. He thought that was a perfectly sane thing to say. He knew I didn't mean old white men like him.

[pinboy3niner]

7. AHA! I suspected it was you all along!

[Nonhlanhla]

8. You might like what this guy said

You might find a kindred soul in this guy (although he's not a veteran). Pretty funny stuff.

http://www.ericgarland.co/2012/11/09/letter-to-a-future-republican-strategist-regarding-white-people/

(P.S. I hope it's OK to post a link in a thread response - I'm new to DU, although I'm a longtime lurker, I've never really paid much attention to the protocols. Anyway, I thought you might enjoy this guy's take down of the GOP.)

[11 Bravo]

12. Welcome to DU! (And that guy would definitely be a kindred spirit.)

Also, it's fine to include a link in any response.
Again, WELCOME!

[trof]

9. Well, that's two of us.

What did you get?
I got a toaster.

[Downwinder]

10. I got six out of seven. Then I fall into the 47%.

Where is my free stuff like public transportation?

[Separation]

11. Hmmm nope

Id say that we are fairly well off, I bring in almost 60k a year. Active duty...does that count as a vet?? In Florida, thats the south to some. Definitely straight, but I dont hate gays or have a problem with them in the military or getting married. This is weird, I wonder if my vote got criss crossed or something.

[Divine Discontent]

20. thanks for your service and for not being hateful about people being who they are

my bro is active and he is all new to understanding you like who you like physically. he said there's a gay guy in one of his battalion's companies, and I said there's more than one, they just aren't out to everyone, trust me, there's probably dozens! He said the guy is super nice and works hard. I said I was proud of him for understanding you don't choose who you are attracted to. And 60K? I gotta sign up! ha.. how long did that take to make that much? 15 yrs?

Thanks again for your service to our country!

[Separation]

37. 17 years this month

And a bunch of metal in me that ain't supposed to be there. You are very correct in saying there are a lot more than just that one guy.

Ive never understood the thinking in not letting openly gay people serve...somehow they are gonna start wanting to have sexy time when all those years that they have had to live a lie and somehow refrained from raping us in the showers. Makes no sense to me, and I'm glad that they are allowed to openly serve now. Hopefully married folks will start getting benefits.

And thank you for the thanks. It means a lot.

[chowder66]

13. Dad is old (but young at heart), white, straight, MidWestern, fairly well off, male veteran

who also voted for Obama and straight dem ticket.

[JohnnyLib2]

14. Tell us about the gift you got from him, please. Did the VA deliver it?

[GeorgeGist]

15. Did you get your gift?

I got an iPad.

[trof]

16. Damn. I only got a toaster.

jeez

[Art_from_Ark]

31. I only got a raffle ticket

for a chance to win a new car, a fishing boat, a bedroom suite, wall-to-wall carpeting, or a thank-you note personally signed by the WH computer.

[Divine Discontent]

17. well, it doesn't matter if you're not "Christian", meaning only, you got to one of their approved

churches, regardless of how you treat others! ha! But, yeah, you and my old white straight veteran father thought you were the only ones voting for Obama, isn't that odd? Funny how the corporate media likes to allow that argument go without a pushback to comments like Mitt's as being laughable when he says it's only minorities that won it for Obama.

[HiPointDem]

18. yeah, i've heard several times from du-ers saying the dems can just write off white

men because they're all racists & sexists anyway.

[Divine Discontent]

22. it is comical how people figure the majority is for something, so don't worry about the minority

well, when the minority is a huge percentage, like 20, 30, or 40 (in this case) percent of voters, you cannot discount their votes as being unimportant. 3.75 to 4.25 out of every 10 white men support progressive policies.

[HiPointDem]

24. and perhaps more might if there were any effort made to speak to their concerns in

their language instead of demonizing them (not saying that some aren't 'demons,' just saying that not all are.

people aren't made of cardboard; they're contradictory beings.

[Downwinder]

25. Everybody is in a minority in some grouping or another.

[Divine Discontent]

38. so true

[phylny]

21. My is an old (well, 57), white, straight, southern, fairly well off, male, veteran

REPUBLICAN who works for an OIL COMPANY and he voted for Obama. Go figure

[renie408]

23. I am white and southern, but I am a woman. Women automatically voted for Obama.

So I don't count.

[Skittles]

30. I think 56% of white gals voted for Mittwitt

study needs to be done on that

[MoonchildCA]

45. I'm a white woman too,

but I'm married, so I just vote the way my husband tells me...

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

26. My grandfather....

Is a 75 year old, white, straight, EVANGELICAL Christian from Upstate New York, and he voted for President Obama! He has been a lifelong Democrat, whose dad worked as a speechwriter for President Roosevelt during FDR's 1936 campaign!

[Divine Discontent]

39. cool! Repubs always claim there's no Christians in the party, and most all of us are, or know people

in our family who is either Christian or even Evangelical. I am firm believer, and no one can change that, but I'm the furthest thing from a Republican! LOL

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

40. Exactly!

The Republicans LOVE to try to paint us Democrats as the party of non-believers, and even with all the rhetoric surrounding the Catholic church and birth control, President Obama STILL won the Catholic vote by 2%!

That reminds me of a sign that I once saw....it said "Obama is not a brown-skinned, anti-war, socialist who gives away free healthcare...You're thinking of Jesus!"

[Divine Discontent]

43. YES! :)

makes 'em think about their hate!

[Jackpine Radical]

27. Well all except for the southern part…

And dammit, my free stuff hasn't arrived yet.

Where do I complain?

[Skittles]

28. you are so cool, 11 Bravo!

[patrice]

29. Kickingness!

[Samjm]

32. I'm a married white woman

And have never used a penny of government "handouts".

But let them keep thinking I'll vote for them.

[just us]

33. I'm also o,w,s,f,m,v

An Old Hippie who can see the bubble the Rep.s still live in.

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. Honey, if you are single, you just made a lot of single Southern

ladies "of a certain age" happy.
Do you know how hard it is to find a white, straight, southern, fairly well off, male, Democrat in these parts?????

[Rose Siding]

41. I was thinking along those same lines!

-about to ask him to call me maybe

[OldDem2012]

35. Nah. I got everything you got, except "fairly well off". nt.

[eallen]

36. You might be -- I only have six of those!

[Fawke Em]

42. My husband is a middle-aged, white, straight, middle-class male veteran who is from the North, but

lives with me in a Southern red-state suburban home and he voted for Pres. Obama!

[Scuba]

46. Old, white, middle-class, midwestern, male, veteran for Obama. And proud of it.

[MadrasT]

47. Clearly you live in the wrong place. Come up north.

We have cookies.

[Victor_c3]

49. From one Infantryman to another, I voted Obama too

I've mentioned this a few times before here, but I can't seem to find a poll or data to support my assertion. I suspect that most veterans who served in an Infantry roll or who were intimately involved in direct combat lean left with their politics. The military vets who lean right, from what I can tell, usually are poges or, if they were in a combat MOS, were fortunate enough to never fight in a war.


Does anyone know of a poll that would confirm or debunk my claim?