Who Votes For Obama?

We can lump our nto five categories:

1. Pocketbook Special Interests.
2. The Haters.
3. Low Information Electors.
4. Extra-Low Information Electors.
5. Cheaters.

Let's examine them individually. The pocket book special interests are a diverse group that is getting larger and more diverse. This group used to be composed of lawyers, public school teachers, bureaucrats and welfare recipients. Obama and company have expanded the welfare state to where they can buy votes with free cell phone service.

I don't see us making inroads with special interest groups. They don't care if their greed causes national bankruptcy or that our ambassador and three other Americans get murdered or that gas prices will continue to spiral upwards. As long as they keep getting paid, they don't care about trivialities.

The Haters. This is not your father's Democratic Party. Today's Democrats know and practice hate as no one else can. They don't have a monopoly on hate but they are better at it than anyone else. Practice. Practice. Practice.




The Democrats spent $250 million to slander Mitt Romney. Truth means absolutely nothing to these people. Nada. Romney the tax cheat. Romney the felon. Romney the wife killer. Before Romney, it was Sarah Palin. Before that it was George Bush. It is slash and burn all the time, truth be damned.

A fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans: Republicans (and conservatives and tea partiers and Evangelicals) view their party as a vehicle to protect and serve America. Democrats view America as a vehicle to protect and serve their party.

Despite their crippled thinking and political fundamentalism, these people are vulnerable to conversion. But truth seeking is not in their DNA. The True Believer can jump from one rigid ideology to another rigid ideology with surprising swiftness. Today's Occupier is tomorrow's Mooney/LaRoucheian/Scientologist. But until that fateful conversion arrives, these people will be voting for Barack Obama.

Which brings us to the LIE's. The Low Information Electors are intellectually lazy. They want to be spoon-fed their opinions by CBS, ABC, NBC, AP, NYT, NPR, etc. If they discuss The national debt or tax policy they will shy away from numbers but reflexively parrot slogans about millionaires and billionaires not paying their fair share. They are not curious about the non-mythical Obama and equate any vetting of the chosen one with birtherism. 


Fast and Furious? Fast and Furious coverup? Caucusgate? Widespread voter fraud? Warren Buffet's tax problem? MF Global? DOJ abuses of power? IRS abuses of power? A sixteen trillion dollar debt that will balloon to twenty-five trillion dollars in four years if we continue our present course? If it's not on the menu, LIE's are not interested.

LIE's value media orthodoxy and will flaunt their own conformity to fourth estate viewpoints. They seek comfort and validation in their orthodox opinions. There are advantages to sloth. There are advantages to being the recipient of spoon-fed Pablum. As long as the LIE's do not tire of Pablum, they will be voting for Obama.

We are also opposed by ELIE's or Extra Low Information Electors. These people get their news third hand from Perez Hilton, John Stewart, Planet Hollywood, MTV or "Saturday Night Live." As with the LIE's, these people are stupid by choice but they are not self-conscious about it. ELIE's don't need the pseudo-sophistication the LIE's constantly seek.

ELIE's usually don't vote but they turned out in record numbers to vote for Obama in 2008. If it rains on election day, they will stay home. If Bravo runs a Real Housewives marathon, Obama might be in real trouble. This group cannot be counted on to vote but if they do, they will vote for Obama.

The fifth and final group to contend with are the cheaters. From out of state college students who vote both locally and at home, to illegal immigrants and major city occupants who exercise their civic duties post-humously, voter fraud was a big part of the Obama 2008 playbook, especially in the primaries.Wikileaks revealed that The Dems stuffed ballot boxes in Pennsylvania and Ohio in 2008 even with the race well in hand (for some reason "The New York Times" did not see the need to explore that leak.)

I don't mind suppressing the votes of the cheaters. If America is to survive, and I no longer make that assumption, we have to address voter fraud in a serious manner. Sad but true, the cheaters might be the key swing vote in 2012. 

To review, Obama supporters can be placed in five categories:


1. Pocketbook Special Interests.
2. The Haters.
3. Low Information Electors.
4. Extra-Low Information Electors.
5. Cheaters.

We know how these groups will vote. Turnout is the key. More specifically, what will the willfully stupid and the cheaters do on election day? The solvency, if not the survival of America is in their hands. That is a sobering thought.