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GoLeft TV

(3,910 posts)
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 05:23 PM Dec 2015

Old White Man Anger Is The Only Thing That Motivates Republican Voters

If there’s one motivating factor behind the average Republican’s vote, it’s anger. And thats not necessarily a good thing, considering most of that anger is drummed up by the right-wing media machine for ratings.

Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this.

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Old White Man Anger Is The Only Thing That Motivates Republican Voters (Original Post) GoLeft TV Dec 2015 OP
True. It's a broken record they play over and over again ffr Dec 2015 #1
I call them "COWGIRLS"... but not to their faces Fritz Walter Dec 2015 #2
Good one! Populist_Prole Dec 2015 #3
Thanks for this... Thespian2 Dec 2015 #5
I am an older white guy. I am neither angry nor republican, right wing, or a lunatic. No guns, no Augiedog Dec 2015 #4
Let's not forget that white women voted for Romney over Obama by a 13 point margin. progree Dec 2015 #6

ffr

(22,670 posts)
1. True. It's a broken record they play over and over again
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 05:25 PM
Dec 2015

and it works with their base, because the simple answer is always the right answer...to them.

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
2. I call them "COWGIRLS"... but not to their faces
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 05:44 PM
Dec 2015

Conservative
Old
White
Guys
Impotently
Raging over
Ludicrous
Shit.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
3. Good one!
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 06:03 PM
Dec 2015

Funny as hell, and truer than true.

I spent several days with one while I visited my RW father for Thanksgiving. Every point in that acronym was well represented and it took a colossal amount of patience on my part not to angrily rebut his opinionated rantings.

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
5. Thanks for this...
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 10:00 PM
Dec 2015

Prefect description of the Old White Guys (millionaires) [and their wives] I met when I was a student at the University of Houston...


Augiedog

(2,548 posts)
4. I am an older white guy. I am neither angry nor republican, right wing, or a lunatic. No guns, no
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 06:56 PM
Dec 2015

bunkers in the backyard and no known phobias. How will I ever go on!

progree

(10,909 posts)
6. Let's not forget that white women voted for Romney over Obama by a 13 point margin.
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 11:16 PM
Dec 2015

White men voted for Romney over Obama by a 28 point margin.

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