After years of hearing that if you don't support the Bush military policy, you don't support the troops, you have to wonder what the neo-cons will try to do or spin now.
A new study released today by the Center for Responsive Politics revealed that members of the military are giving more donations to Senator Obama than Senator McCain, and when you just examine those troops who are deployed, Obama attracts more donations by a 6 to 1 factor. So much for conventional wisdom.
The fact is that our troops aren't much different than most Americans. As such, it's not surprising that they overwhelmingly oppose the Bush military policy that John McCain would continue. The latest AP polls show that 62 percent of the troops disapprove of the Bush policy. And with this latest revelation, we can see that they are beginning to speak with their checkbooks, making it known just how strongly they believe we need to begin to redeploy from Iraq and go on the offense against al Qaeda in Afghanistan where the real enemy is making big gains.
The point is our troops aren't stupid. They know that the current course our military is on is not sustainable, and they're looking for a dramatic change. And even though they don't have a whole lot of money to give, they are voting right now with their wallets. So, do our troops hate the troops? No, of course not. Our troops love America, and that's the point.
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I knew when you posted that comment on my blog, that you would have the "data" from CRP. That crap study came out over three days ago, I think that it was actually posted as an article yesterday on their site. Joe, there is no way to count contributions under 250 dollars and unless I am missing something, military folks really do not make a bunch of money, so you wouldn't consider them likely to contribute thousands of dollars. This is a fabrication or a distortion. Find the reference to how they gathered their data, it cannot be found. The most comprehensive way to determine who the military folks are for is to poll them in the field. Which is running at slightly less than 94% for McCain. Please recall that Bush won in the military absentee ballots by 89-19 against Kerry, who was actually a vet in case you forgot despite him reminding you at every minute.
Just so you know, CRP is far-left wing. Yes, they are supposedly independent, but so is the ACLU. I debunked this yesterday in my comments. It is a non-story. Sorry.
Oh, and maybe they were just trying to say that Hamas counted as military, because Obama has received a bunch of bundling contributions from Hamas. Just saying.
Oh, and my numbers were a typo, Bush got 79% of the military vote instead of the 89.
ROFL - Me thinks though doth protest too much. Touch a nerve, huh?
It's amazing how anyone that disagrees with you is either far left wing or making stuff up, or both. Sorry dude, that's not how it works.
Anyone two steps to the right of you seems to be "far left wing".
Yes, Joe, I am conservative by today's standards, but to think that the CRP study means anything is silly. I debunked it, with my normal right wing malice. You should check it out and tell me that I am wrong instead of defending a group that you have never heard of that is Pro-Obama.
Sorry dude. You didn't debunk squat. CRP’s website OpenSecrets.org has won four Webby Awards (2001, 2002, 2006, 2007) for being the best politics site online.
Look it up.
It's open, it's bipartisan, and just because you don't like what it says doesn't make it unfair or innacurate.
Well, we'll just have to agree to disagree on CRP and their really weak unreferenced statistical data that "polls" 323 people in the military.
I consider it ridiculous to say that the military supports Barry 6-1 over McCain. Democrats don't even support Barry 6-1 over McCain. And that figure will continue to plummet when he picks the third most liberal senator to be his running mate.
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