Concerned here in DE
I'm really concerned for this election. What do they say "The stupid, it burns" (or something like that). I'm friends on FB with a lot of my high school classmates (representing very white, lower-middle to mid-upper income families) and I continue to be amazed at how many have turned into freakin' freepers...and I mean totally went off the deep end of the gene pool. Sure, a couple of them as kids were able to be real jerks and those are ones that I'm not surprised about, but people that I never would have suspected have totally flipped and now have 'quivers full' of kids (one has 11!). I know 30 yrs can make a huge difference in people, but such an "about face" and so different from the families they were raised in.
I've always thought of Delaware as representing a less extreme mix of the general US population. Like our politicians, historically we didn't swing too far in either direction and tended to cross over frequently (too much in some cases). If this mix is a less extreme representation of the US, I'm very concerned. 
This will be the first election my daughter will be eligible to vote in, so Pres Obama and VP Biden will get +3 from our family 
How are things in other areas that you've observed?
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population. In NCC, it she seemed to garner the mega-church crowd - and apparently northern DE is also capable of supporting an increasing number of conservative/evangelical mega churches
There is complacency (just like everywhere else) in that if we think someone is acceptable, is an incumbant, and going to 'have it in the bag', people just don't go out to the polls. Everybody I talked to on the morning after thought there was no way Castle - a past Governor - could lose to that witch. I think many Delawareans woke up and felt like a brick hit them between the eyes.
We had an exodus of many of the conservatives a few years ago when we refused to renew those pastors' contracts (husband and wife team). Unfortunately, that took a lot of the young families. We're just starting to see the addition of some new young families to the mix.
We had another Presby church in the area who had a mass exodus of conservatives. They essentially 'divorced' the Presbytery early this year over the vote to accept gays in the ministry and left their established church in Wilmington, with the pastor leading the way, to find a church of their own. What's ironic is that minister has a gay son and a daughter who has had 3 kids out of wedlock. Hey, at least she's still married to the guy she was screwing around with on her first husband. Supposedly it was after that that she found religion and became a minister. I've known her since 1978 and I always figured it was because she spoke in a way she could make people believe anything AND pastoring is a lucrative business if you serve the right congregation. 
And she was DEFINITELY interested in serving the right congregation.
He appeals to the Delaware crowd.
