California may not be a Dem stronghold next time around. While the Bay Area and the coast as a whole supported Kerry, the interior was a different story.
OK, that's bad enough, but this part really worries me:
For some California voters, religious beliefs and moral values trumped concerns about the day-to-day events in the news.Damon Grant of Santa Rosa supported Bush because he liked the president's moral values.
"He's a churchgoing man who isn't afraid to say he didn't used to be, and that's more important to me than stuff like Iraq,'' Grant said. "I disagree with a lot of what's happening in Iraq, but that's not most important in my head."
So he doesn't think the fact that people are getting hurt and killed as a result of the president's decisions really matters, because what Bush says about his religious faith matters more. Does he not see the problem here? Don't deeds matter more than words? What strange form of disassociation from reality is this? This is quite literally insane. I cannot even being to understand or explain it.
In addition to being angry, I'm now really really scared... of my fellow citizens.
