when you live in the part of ohio that i do

[hockeynut57]

it's hard to imagine obama winning this state. but now and then, from between the jacked up pickup trucks and coondog kennels and the tvs blaring the noise from fox news i'll spy the occasional obama sign, and it gives me hope. if not for these all too infrequent traces of sanity and the news from DU, i'd be a very forlorn camper. is that glenn beck and banjos i hear?

[barnabas63]

1. my sympathy

I grew up in a very red area of the country, and it was really no fun. Hang in there!

[jcgoldie]

2. Trust me you are not alone...

Illinois is about as blue as blue gets and yet in rural southern Illinois where I live, my blue Obama yard sign is very lonely. Even my fellow teachers at the high school who of course are all part of the union and owe their economic status almost entirely to that fact are more concerned about their gun rights than any other issue. They still think O will take their guns even though he done absolutely nothing progressive on that issue. I had a farmer come to buy hay from me last week for his cattle, saw the yard sign and left. I just laughed, after the summer drought I wont have trouble selling my hay this winter, his loss...

[kywildcat]

3. good lord-I'm in northern ky

miles from cincinnati-where do you think we send our over flow of inbreds and glenn beck syncophants to?

[Mojo2]

5. I went to college in Athens, Ohio

which is a pretty liberal town, but almost everything within 100 miles either way from Athens is pretty much either sparesly populated, or redneck, I could always here the banjos from Deliverance playing when I drove to or from Athens. I grew up in NE Ohio and it is a pretty strong DEM Union area, so hopefully they carry the day. I feel more comfortable that Obama will win Ohio than I do that he will win Florida.

[hockeynut57]

6. miami university?

know the area, did lots of gigs there back in the day. good hockey team too

[madmom]

8. Miami University is in the Cincinnati area. Don't you mean Ohio University?

[hockeynut57]

10. yes i did, i work evenings it still early for me

[Purrfessor]

17. I attended the Ohio-Eastern Michigan game last night at Peden Stadium

I'm an hour south of Athens, in the very red county of Gallia. Ohio 45 EMU 14 by the way.

[madmom]

7. Your profile says you are in

Lima, howdy neighbor!

Did you see this?

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this is in Defiance, my neck of the woods. So don't feel so lonely, we're all in this together!

[hockeynut57]

9. no i didn't , but i see similar attitudes everyday.

defiace rally? they claimed 15,000 attended at least, wima 1150 am reported that

[madmom]

14. Our paper said 10,000. I'm not sure that stadium could hold that many. It's only

a stadium for high school football.

[hockeynut57]

22. my thoughts exactly nt

[Faith9326]

11. I live in Columbus

Near downtown with all the liberals. Thank God I don't have to listen to those pumpkin fucks.

[maxsolomon]

12. Cincinnati Expatriot here

The view from the Soviet of Seattle is a little different than it was when I grew up on Cincinnati's German Catholic west side.

All my relatives are still there, judging folks they don't know, listening to Limbaugh & Fox, and voting straight GOP.

It makes me very happy to see the north of the state assert it's Liberal heart over Cincinnati's curdled bitter suburbs. Ohio, save us from ourselves.

[krawhitham]

13. Cincinnati here too, I do see a lot less bumber stickers this cycle for the Rethugs

[hockeynut57]

16. my dear friend

lives near seattle, now and then i have to call her to be remind that the whole world is not close minded, bigoted deer hunting,nascar watching cretins. and now i visit this site for the same affirmations

[Purrfessor]

18. I moved to SE Ohio from the San Francisco bay area....

talk about culture shock. Whew.

[maxsolomon]

19. I thought that was only a 1-way street heading west

Do you work at P&G or GE Evendale?

[Firebirds01]

15. Dayton/Springfield here

Bout the same problems.

[hockeynut57]

20. yea i know

worked with some funk bands this. they were quite surprised with mt attitude towards diversity. so i guess all sectors of the color wheel need a little enlightenment

[Faith9326]

21. Even though I live in Columbus, I'm from Akron

And I wonder if Akron is for Obama this time around? I went to visit in 08 during the election season, and there were Obama signs everywhere. I hope it's still the case.

[madinmaryland]

23. Hey Neighbor!

I grew up in Hardin County, right next door to Lima! Moved away about 30 years ago.

We gave the nation Michael Oxley. Ugh!

[hockeynut57]

25. greetings from and i qoute lenny bruce "the asshole of the world"nt

[hockeynut57]

24. just returned from gas station in lima ohio

tons of camo'ed pick up driving cretins talking smack about POTUS visit to our little shithole of a town. what has obama done to inspire so much hate among these people. the only thing i can think of is he was born not 100% caucasion.

[jcgoldie]

26. Bingo.

Not only was he born half black, but its the wrong half... we cant have them coming for our white women, we need those women to stay home and make babies for us so we can keep up with the Mexicans...

[madinmaryland]

27. You got that right!

Anyone not the color of their white sheets is not an Amurikan.