Ask a bunch of Republicans, and you get some … um … interesting answers.
There are a few things here I agree with: folks were fed up with Dubya, McCain wasn't a strong candidate (though I suspect we'd disagree on why).
But the idea that it was all because of Obama lying to young slackers who didn't want to have to work any more, blacks all racistly voting for a black man, people looking for novelty, and massive voter fraud? Yeah, not so much. #ddtb
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Why Did Obama Ever Win in the First Place?
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I voted for Mr. Obama because he wasn’t Mr. McCain….also, I haven’t voted for a Republican since 1992 (House of Representatives) and probably won’t any time again in the foreseeable future because “fool me twice….. For the record, I’m white, and on Medicare. I’m also angry and frustrated and what people don’t know and what idiocies they believe.
@Ellie – I voted for Obama because (a) he wasn’t Dubya, (b) he wasn’t McCain, but also (c) he appeared to be a progressive leader who would be a Guy on a White Horse to lead us away from the disastrous conservative policies in foreign relations, civil liberties, and public programs we’d suffered for at least the previous 8 years (see (a)) and arguably since 1980.
What I got was a centrist whose record on foreign relations is a mild improvement (still too willing to be an interventionist but he wrapped up things in Iraq), whose record on civil liberties (from a security state point of view) is no better, if not worse than his predecessor (even if in other civil liberties areas — gay rights, women’s rights, voting rights — he’s a distinct if not stellar improvement); and whose public program actions are an a distinct improvement (see PPACA) but who is still to willing to compromise out the gate, and is still too much in bed with Wall Street (watered-down reform bills notwithstanding).
I don’t see myself putting out an Obama yard sign this year, and probably not a bumper sticker, but given *any* of the GOP (including the arguable best of them, the guy likely to get the nomination) he almost certainly has my vote.