. . . and I think they have not asked the right question! The question to ask is, “What about Ron Paul vs. Obama?” ~J
Brett LoGiurato
Source: Business Insider
In the last two elections, veterans have voted overwhelmingly for the Republican candidate. In 2008, John McCain took 54 percent of the veteran vote, according to the Los Angeles Times. In 2004, President George W. Bush took 57 percent in his re-election bid and amid fighting two wars. ABC noted the last two elections went Republican by 10- and 16-point margins, respectively.
So here’s a surprise: The veteran vote in the 2012 election is trending toward Barack Obama. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that Obama would beat Mitt Romney by as much as seven percentage points in November.
The picture, from Reuters:
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In this election, veterans trend toward the norm of the remainder of the country.
The reason: Weariness from a decade of fighting two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. More and more veterans are going the direction of the Graftons, a couple that both served in the military. From the Reuters write up:
The Graftons’ votes, however, like many veterans’, can’t be taken as evidence of a hard-line military stance. Registered Republicans, they cast their ballots for Obama in 2008 because he promised to bring the troops home from Iraq.
“I went to war for George Bush,” said Grafton, 48, a retired Army master sergeant who served in special operations units in Somalia and Iraq. “But we can’t keep policing the world.”
Veterans are now split evenly as to what political party identifies with better serving their needs. But here’s where Romney can hit back on Obama’s improving record with veterans: They think the Republican Party has better approaches to the War on Terror, of dealing with Iran and of handling the economy.
They also believe the U.S. should not decrease military spending — 51 percent at least “somewhat disagree.” Obama is proposing to cut nearly $500 billion off the defense budget over the next decade.
Reuters
Hi Jean, Yes it is a shocker!
And I feel that something will happen with very positive results for everybody in the near future but; I guess it is hard to accept changes. Most of us usually want things to stay the way they are but hey! … This is the 21st century and it is time for a change. I know how important this post is and I also know it will bring controversy between opposite parties but I have a story of dream to relate because every time something happens with Obama I remember my dream.
I don’t know if I told you about this dream I had with a tall man (who now I feel is Obama)… and war that he was in charge of. You know we are heroes in our dreams and always do things and we don’t get harm. Well I told him to stop the war … and so he did. So my understanding with this is … that I represented humanity in that dream and we were listened to. Also, after the war ended, three oval lightships appeared in the sky … and there was these beings like what we call angels …flying down to the ground to assist those that were hurt and touching their foreheads to cure them. Maybe this is that grand energy coming from the cosmos that is assisting us in this awakening of our consciences.
This was a very vivid and a long dream, but again I have to bring it to this conversation, because I feel that something positive was shown to me in that dream. It happened in 1999 and I will never forget it.
I know Obama was not president by then but… this man in my dream was tall, dark skin and thin just like him and I have been following his presidency. That is why I have this feeling that things are going to be of great changes for all.
Any way all of us want peace and live our lives in tranquility.
Thanks for sharing your dream with us! I had a dream several years ago that hit me like yours did, and I’ve mentioned it here on my blog, but a long time ago. I will never, ever forget it, and I think it still may happen! I’m going to look for the piece I wrote about it. . . I have hopes, still, that Obama is not bad like so many people choose to believe. He wasn’t supposed to win; that was not the plan. Can you imagine that our lives would be quite the same if McCain and Palin had been elected? I cannot, but I’m just one person. Nevertheless, I’ve learned to keep my mind open, but also not to throw my own ideas away just because of outside pressure . . . thanks for sharing this and hugs, ~Jean
Oh thank you Jean, I can’t wait to read about your dream. I do believe in dreams.
This whole article is pure propaganda. I know THOUSANDS of veterans and they all dispise Obama. They view Obama the same as the enemy they thought they were fighting. From the Vietnam vet all the way to present time in Afganistan and the Middle East. Obama represents the Matxists, communist, dictatorial powers the vets thought they were fighting AGAINST.
I understand Rueters is owned by the Rothschilds so these this type of articles are to be expected from them. And from the bought and paid for media in this country.
So Brett, get your facts right. Talk to the combat vets that have actually done the fighting. Of which I’m one of way back in 1970.
You aren’t even close. The majority of the vets fully support Ron Paul and you know it. Thus, this article.
Nice try, you aren’t fooling anyone anymore.
Doc
Doc, my sense of this article was that given a choice ONLY between Obama and Romney – they’d take Obama as the lesser of the evils. (I’m also wondering if you perhaps read it incorrectly and saw the choice between Obama and Paul?) Hugs, ~Jean
Good point Jean. But even so I don’t know any vets that would vote for either one of them. I wonder how they would “fix” the Obama – Paul match-up. I bet we find out soon enough.
Jean,
You have no idea how beautiful you are! I love you!!