For Obama supporters, this seems to be a day of celebration, with huge turn-out suggesting a groundswell for change.<\/p>\n
For McCain supporters, the message is very different: Are these new voters legitimate? Who are they? Are they legal? Where are they taking the country?<\/p>\n
I listened to a lot of conservative talk radio as I drove down from Saranac Lake to Saratoga Springs. <\/p>\n
The take-away from Hannity, Rush, and Coulter – as well as many local conservatives – is simple:<\/p>\n
Republican losses, should they occur, won’t be the fault of George Bush’s unpopularity, the Iraq War, or the economic crisis.<\/p>\n
Here’s a transcript from Limbaugh’s show:<\/p>\n
“How long is it going to be before the average Obama voter gets mad and says, ‘What’s this? We didn’t vote for this!'” You know, I could be wrong, too. I don’t know but I think there are a lot of guilty white people voting today for Obama, just to make themselves feel better, thinking they’re ending a period in history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The culprits are media bias, a corrupt voting system, and foolish voters tricked by Barack Obama. <\/p>\n
What do you think? Comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For Obama supporters, this seems to be a day of celebration, with huge turn-out suggesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}