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Monday, November 3, 2008 09:58 AM

Ignorant Electorate

"I'm afraid Obama is going to change our country into a Muslim country," said Melody Edwall, 51, a manager for an air carrier who lives in Colorado Springs. "I do. I'm afraid of him." Edwall was pretty sure Obama wanted to change the country too much. "This is America -- you don't like it, leave," she said. She'd heard Obama wanted to change the flag and the symbols of the country somehow. "He wants it to be this one big -- I don't know -- it's not America. It's going to be something else, and I don't know what it's going to be.""

Why is it that the typical Republican voter will choose a candidate based on irrational, false or exaggerated information?

Do they choose not to be informed?

The Republican party has consistantly relied on these people to win elections.

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