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charlyvi

(6,537 posts)
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 04:59 PM Aug 2012

I think more than a few Republicans are not going to vote for Romney/Ryan

Everyone knows that the Tea Party types, or most of them, are in the higher income brackets. Many Republicans are not. In fact, there are many, many blue collar Repubs who are depending on Social Security and Medicare for a reasonably secure retirement. When it hits the fan that Ryan's budget will pretty much gut those programs, those lower income Repubs will bolt, I think. This isn't just about birth certificates or college grades or foreign wars; this is their future well being, the food on their tables, the health care they will need to stay alive. The Ryan budget is a gut punch I don't think they will allow. Also too, they don't want their children thrown to the wolves.

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I think more than a few Republicans are not going to vote for Romney/Ryan (Original Post) charlyvi Aug 2012 OP
Republicans not voting? billky Aug 2012 #1
 

billky

(159 posts)
1. Republicans not voting?
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 05:47 PM
Aug 2012

That would be accurate if any of these people even know what they stand for. I'm afraid most of these people don't watch the real news, they just go vote Republican.

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