Reply #2: I live in La Crosse & I don't read the Tribune's polls anymore

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because it is slanted so right wing, as well as the comments (I post there occasionally under "elocs" also and with the same avatar as here). This was addressed just yesterday by the Tribune online editor Marc Wehrs. Reading the polls or the online comments I do have trouble understanding how Obama carried the area so handily in 2008.

Of course, you are as familiar as I am with the illegal immigration issue in this area in places like Arcadia and Norwalk and how those who are illegal there live in fear about the next sweep for illegals. Also there are many in La Crosse who still have not gotten over the Hmong having been brought here.

Basically here in La Crosse we have a shrill contingent who are very vocal on the Tribune comments page and I think they give the impression that they represent a larger portion of the population here than they really do. They really have the YOYO (You're On Your Own) philosophy as well as "too bad, so sad" when it comes to the misfortunes of others--but it's a much different tune they sing when it is their own troubles. They are against spending money for anything, that is unless it somehow benefits them personally. They are narrow and small minded and make you understand why some animals eat their young.