The road to Rolla: Day 3
I've finally made it to Rolla, a typical middle American town set in rolling green hills about 100 miles south-west of St Louis, half way to Springfield.
On the way in to town, we passed a sign next to the highway: "Rolla: the center of everywhere". Which, of course, is why we have come. There are the same number of Americans living between here and Canada as there are between here and Mexico; the same number between here and the Pacific as between here and the Atlantic. This is truly the middle of middle America.
So what's on voters' minds? You'll have to listen to tomorrow's edition of The World Tonight to find out. We've already lots of questions sent in by email, and we expect to get plenty more when voters arrive for the show at the Missouri University of Science and Technology tomorrow afternoon. If you're in the area, you're more than welcome to show up. We'll be in the Leach Theater, and the programme goes on air live at 4pm local time.
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If I got you right, your looking to find the heartland,.. and you did!
Wow, I didn't know, and I don't know who's voting and for what at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
I'll assume it isn't for Nobama :^)
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Okay, better now, I've gone back to your other posts and now see what your attempting to do. Bravo! I'll check in tommorrow.
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Hey Tex,
I happen live in Rolla, and I've got to tell you, you're wrong about who we're voting for. We're the home of one of the premier tech universities in the nation (i.e. we invented the computer science degree, for example), the region's only medical center, and we're also the home to a great many active duty and retired military -- Ft. Leonard Wood is only 25 or so miles away.
I say that to say this. When voters look at the issues and platforms that the candidates stand for (rather than following "their gut" and basing their opinions on TV commercials), Obama wins in a landslide. Those in our area that are planning to vote for McCain are doing so for reasons related to abortion or other wedge issues that will NEVER be resolved, or because they're following the lead of people who are trying to make the race more about personality than anything else, or because they think Obama's a Muslim or won't say the pledge, or some other nonsense. Most of our citizens want the tax code rewritten to benefit the middle and lower classes rather than the rich, we want universal healthcare, we want better cheaper access to higher education, we want improved international trade controls so we're not competing with 3rd world workers earning 20 cents an hour, we want out of Iraq and back into Afganistan to track down the actual people who attacked us, and we recognize that the Republicans will never really change the laws regarding abortion, gay marriage, gun rights, etc., because as long as those issues are unresolved, they are simply too valuable as vote getters.
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BTW, welcome to Rolla Robin. If you have a chance, I hope you can visit "A Slice of Pie" while you're here. You won't regret it.
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#4 YoBama:
thanks for the recommendation -- the pie was delicious!
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There's a report on Andrew Sullivan's blog that Sarah Palin will not be available for press and media engagements for two weeks.
I thought the Presidential campaign had started.
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Yobama, Good name pick for Democrat.
We had a puppy dropped by our property by some cruel animal hating piece of...... got my drift. He's about eight weeks now, was six, bitten by fire ants and barely able to stand,.. but cute as god makes every puppy.
The wife and I named him McCain. We had a Clinton dog for sixteen years until he got into some poison from a neighbor,... city people moving into the country and instilling city views and laws,.. I could go on with this for ever,..
I also have a two year old dog named (aptly) Gee dubya you (GW). He looked like a retriever as a pup (another abandoned), turns out to be a cross between a weiner dog and a pit bull. So ugly he's cute.
Not connected to the point I wanted to make really, I just disagree with the stand of yours on change. Obama is a tried and true CHicago (in your face) politrician and he picked the stalworth old scchool foreign relations chairman as a running mate.
Change by tactical sameness, insigder trading (Rezco?) and companioned to by history (his) to non reformed terrorist with extremist ideals, add that to the "disassociated" friends and pastor that left a far left 'true' political stance.
Remeber, the shift to moderate for Obama was an onpurpose shift to appeal to moderate America of both parties and levels of intelligence, (the third level is idiots),... and this shift will swing back as soon as the need to appease is gone.
No different mind you for McCain. His history to me is farther left than McGovern and the pendualum will also swing there,.. for me, not my ideal, but shy of giving up more of my freedoms. I fear Obama though he speaks well,.. Many Germans feared Hitler for the same reasons, but liked his mantra.
A messiah may feel no reason to keep a congress in session if they are only going to stop him from fullfilling his campaign promises, and many people looking for the cradel to grave handout he is offering will agree. "The Intelligent" may pay a higher price then they expected, considering the extermism of the Senate, the courts and now working in the house.
Just are comments, not a belief or prophecy. Discussions start with points and I've given a few (probaly to many)
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According to you, His name will change in sixty days,.. I hope not as he is a little black dog with some white in him (on his chest) :>) ....and people will talk. Imagine me calling him in for dinner, now if that isn't funny.......
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