Not so alone in the OC, after all!
What surprises me the most is when they honk from behind.
This is new for me.
But, twice today I've been honked at and passed by drivers thrilled by my Obama stickers, giving me an enthusiastic "thumbs-up" sign as they gleefully pass me. One even rolled down his window to shout "Me, too! I thought I was the only one, here!"
Huh? When did it get to be cool to support Obama in the OC?
Seriously, this is Orange County. I thought I was the only one.
When you live here in Orange County, CA, it's easy to think you're the only Democrat or Obama supporter in town. But when you look at actual final vote count, it's clear you've got a lot of company.
Check out the numbers from Tuesday:
McCain: 430,360 votes for just 50 percent of the total.
Obama; 401,605 votes for 47 percent of the total.
That's the best a Democratic presidential candidate has done in the OC since at least 1964, and also the worst a Republican has done since then.
So it goes to show you what can happen when a guy like Obama expands the playing field and brings in tons of new voters -- young people and Latinos in particular in Orange County.
To put Obama's vote totals in the OC in even more context, his 401,605 is more than Obama earned in five different states that Obama won: Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware.
So, it turns out I'm not so alone in the OC, after all!
(beep! beep!)
McCain: 430,360 votes for just 50 percent of the total.
Obama; 401,605 votes for 47 percent of the total.
That's the best a Democratic presidential candidate has done in the OC since at least 1964, and also the worst a Republican has done since then.
So it goes to show you what can happen when a guy like Obama expands the playing field and brings in tons of new voters -- young people and Latinos in particular in Orange County.
To put Obama's vote totals in the OC in even more context, his 401,605 is more than Obama earned in five different states that Obama won: Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware.
So, it turns out I'm not so alone in the OC, after all!
(beep! beep!)
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Except for the people living in my house. Which is why I feel like such a freak in this place. I'm still would like entirely like everyone else, say, if you dropped me in Brattleboro, Vt. Or Black Mountian, NC, or Brooklyn, NY. etc...I look -- we all look -- like fish out of water here in CA.
I hate it here and all joking asides - it remains the biggest thorn in our relationship's side -- Living here. It's so not what I wanted for my kids -- all this plastic and crap.
Oh well, I have to go volunteer in my seconder's class now. Then come home and vent for therapy on line.
Louise on the --- middle of fucking Mars.