I've been phone banking for Obama, and let me tell you...

[dave123williams]

There are often instances where a husband won't let his wife take the call and decide for herself who she's supporing. There are others where I speak with the lady of the house, but she will *whisper* that she's supporting Obama, but that she can't let anyone know.

Which all goes to prove one thing. Republicans a) don't actually value what their wives and daughters actually think and b) their philosophy is so totally bankrupt that it can't brook discussion or dissent. If either thing appears, insanity ensues. Loud, yelling hate-fueled insanity...we've seen it at their rallies already...

To Republican lurkers.....that means you're a big bunch of frightened bullying cowards at heart.

The good news is that the Country can see it more clearly by the day, and nobody's buying their well-packaged brand of bullshit demagoguery any more.

I'm sure they'll lose this election displaying exactly the kind of grace with which they've governed.

[Erin Elizabeth]

1. I can totally see that.

[Roland99]

2. Did you see this thread where the women in a family were damn near beaten?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7425397&mesg_id=7425397

[Chorophyll]

9. Holy crap. I missed that one.

So glad I don't have to deal with that in my family.

[jefferson_dem]

3. Ah...the Bradley Effect in reverse.

Some folks don't want to admit to supporting Obama for fear of backlash from the low-info haters.

In the voting booth, they will do the right thing.

I won't be surprised if the results on election day are much better for us than pre-election polls indicate.

Thanks for working in the trenches...and for the update. :applause:

[Kookaburra]

17. Did you see Mike Easley on Rachel Maddow's show?

He was discussing that very thing. Said the Reverse Bradley Effect is much more likely this time around (credited his barber with that prediction).

[JimWis]

4. Very well said. Good post. I think in the privacy of the voting

booth, this is going to be a landslide for Obama. There was an earlier post about a family argument - don't know how to link it. But I think this is happening all over.

[Chorophyll]

5. Good post, good conclusion.

Frightened bullying cowards are all that's left of the Republican party.

Thanks for phone banking, by the way. That's my un-favorite campaign activity.

[Mme. Defarge]

6. This is the big problem with

vote-by-mail. It is the only way you can vote in Oregon. While there are advantages to it, it doesn't provide for the sanctity of the voting booth.

[goodgd_yall]

10. That's a good point

That's too bad Oregon has done that.

[lady raven]

7. Any woman who is afraid to let her husband know who she's supporting

NEEDS to be voting for the ticket that Joe Biden is on!

[goodgd_yall]

12. Thank god for the vote

At least those women have SOME power.

[Raine]

14. and Thank God that it's a secret ballot. nt

[ikojo]

8. During the 2000 election I was standing outside a polling

place. A woman from the upper middle class neighborhood in suburban St Louis, where the polling place was located told me that she let her husband decide for whom to vote! Wow! Like she doesn't want to waste her precious mind with such things as politics.

Oy vey!!!

[Sebastian Doyle]

15. Even more ironic (and disturbing) that such a woman could be Vice President

Sarah Palin doesn't take a shit in the morning if Todd doesn't okay it first. That's what their wacko Dominionist religion dictates. Complete and total submission to the husband's authority.

[The Traveler]

11. Woosies.

Technically speaking, such men are woosies. Viagra was invented for guys like that so they could fake a normal capacity for sex. I love it when they get all red faced and jiggle their beer guts and man titties at me in rage. Clearly, the cannot be regarded as fully functioning examples of my gender.

Trav

[HughMoran]

13. That's my experience too

The hateful RW Male bullying misogynistic bigots who head these households are going down. We're all sick of them and their hate.

[rosesaylavee]

16. I had thought that this male-domination crap would

be done by the time I reached this age in life. I really did. These people are most likely my age - what the hell happened to me that they have missed out on?

I am just continually amazed at my age group and how backward thinking they can be. Damn, won't we EVER outgrow our parents attitudes?

[writes3000]

18. Yep, I've noticed the same damn thing in my phone-banking. So annoying.

But I figure some of these women will strike back in the voting booth.

[butterfly77]

19. I think that a lot of these women need to ..

vote early at the polls because there may be a lot of domestic violence on election day..

[EFerrari]

20. How small do you have to be to try to tell your wife how to vote?

Good grief.

[qanda]

21. The good things is that anyone under the age of 12 cannot accompany you into the booth

Unfortunately, control freaks like this might make their spouse vote on an absentee ballot to make sure they're voting the way they want them to.

[Avalux]

22. I think we will see reverse Bradley effect.

People who can't say they'll vote for Obama for various reasons (like the one in your post) but will do so in secret.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

23. Just talked to a friend today about her husband's threat of divorce if she votes for Obama.

I told her maybe SHE should consider divorcing HIM!!

[DearAbby]

24. Reverse Bradley effect....

People who are afraid to admit in public, supporting Obama. I know how they feel. I have my Obama / Biden Sticker, but it isnt on my car. Its sits on top of the monitor here.

[southerncrone]

26. Here in The South many of us are hesitant to display Obama/Biden

signs & stickers for fear of vandalism to our property (cars & homes). Sad that we live in such a backward, bully-infested, bully-supported society.

I hope that one day SOON these bastards will be in the minority & not supported by the ruling party, so they will be forced back under the rocks from whence they came.

[CK_John]

25. This is why I don't agree with voting at home by mail only. n/t

[phantom power]

27. I hadn't thought of that.

Sad that we have to take the "abusive spouse effect" into account, here in the 21st century.

[phantom power]

28. Silver lining: the GOP has fewer votes than they think.