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Actually, JetLS, I was born and raised in CT - so I do know what you mean. That's part of the reason I got out of the state after I graduated, although honesty compels me to admit that the main reason was that CT was so damned boring!
Nonetheless, if Obama's chance to take the state is seriously jeopardized by losing the votes of the small percentage of civil-liberties Democrats (or former Democrats) who can't stomach his change of position...well, then, maybe he shouldn't have decided that the Fourth Amendment was expendable.
But realistically, that's not going to happen; he won't lose CT. Most Democrats, like most Republicans - hell, like most human beings - seem to slavishly follow the "my team/my leader over all" pattern. It amazes me that so many Democrats who claimed to be outraged by Republican crimes against the Bill of Rights are leaping to make excuses when their "own" side does the same thing. That they don't realize that they are displaying the exact same behavior that they bitterly criticized Republicans for is merely a sad commentary on human nature.
Speaking for myself: like you, I have the luxury of being able to vote my conscience. If Obama loses Rhode Island (my current state of residence), he has much bigger problems to worry about than a few angry civil libertarians.
Would I be more worried about casting a protest vote if I lived in a state that mattered? To be honest, I just don't know! But as it is, I'm thinking I might vote for Cynthia McKinney (sp?) of the Green Party. I'll have to do some research on her positions. Yeah, I'm throwing my vote away. But I simply can't stomach the idea of voting for Obama any more. I was going to send money to him next payday, too.
ActBlue or the Greens will make better use of it, I hope.
