How many Rethugs do you know?

[goclark]

On your job?

At your church?


At the Gym?

Your neighbors?

What did I forget?

My total is "1" ....... A "thinks he knows it all" guy that is a medical Dr.


How many bumper stickers do you see that say " Rmoney?

I live in Los Angels and I've seen "0" for Rmoney and at least 40 for Obama

[HopeHoops]

1. A lot. One of them's even a good friend.

[goclark]

12. Do they ever try to change your mind?

I have a friend that would tell me that she was going with her Church group to visit the " Reagan Library" etc. etc. etc.

When I talked to her a week ago she had changed her tune ~ now she says, "Romney is crazy ~ I wouldn't vote for him for a million bucks!"

[HopeHoops]

13. Only my mom, and I gave up on trying to change hers. My neighbor and I are very close.

We help each other out. Soon after he moved in, I brought over high-intensity lights while he was trying to pull down a tree after dark (didn't ask why he chose the time). He recently used his SUV to assist my dad's F-250 to restore our cherry tree to an upright position. It bloomed and produced fruit this season and I'm shocked that it lived at all. We joke about politics and threatened each other with a paintball fight (blue and red of course) with a cardboard effigy of Ralph Nader in the middle of the street - bonus points for hitting Nader. You don't have to agree to be friends.

[randome]

2. I think most people are polite enough to not mention politics.

I rarely hear anyone talking about 'their' side.

[honeylady]

3. Too Damn Many!!!!!

[soccer1]

4. I know many republicans.....

we NEVER discuss politics or religion. I must say though, that none of my friends are republicans, except for my husband, a registered republican, who is really a "closet democrat".

[goclark]

6. Great for your husband

and great or our side.

[soccer1]

10. The republicans have become so radical....

my husband can't relate to what they represent. Also, the republicans I know are either wealthy or practicing Catholics....protecting their wealth and/or the doctrines of the church. Each to their own but that's why we NEVER discuss religion or politics. My "good neighbor" policy.

[JDPriestly]

5. Three and four of my neighbors are Republicans. At least one is a Ron Paul fanatic,

and maybe make that two (husband and wife? haven't talked to the wife) and one woman (and probably her mother if not yet declared mentally incompetent) because she is a "Christian" and votes her "morals."

As for the Christian, I just found out yesterday about her party affiliation, and since it was at a public event, I told her gently that we would have to talk.

And we will. She is very sweet. I think she has raised a couple of foster children. But I am curious as to how she defines "morals."

[sinkingfeeling]

7. I am completely surrounded.

[maryellen99]

9. my hair stylist

and she also brings up religion to her clients. One of the other stylists is a birther moran, who by the way is mexican. I refuse to discuss politics/religion with birthers/paranoids/fox news viewers.

[etherealtruth]

32. So is mine ... but she does such a good job ...

... she can blather on all she wants (She doesn't blather on about politics, but it does come up).

[soccer1]

11. Me too.....

Sigh.....that's why I go to DU.......keeps me sane.....I think....

[Raffi Ella]

18. right!? I am SO envious of the OP.

I live in Georgia, I am literally surrounded by them. And my two brothers and their families are hard core right wing Jesus/ Sara Palin/ Glen Beck loving flag waving Don't tread on me Bush supporting sorts.

I don't see Romney Bumper Stickers, what I see are Bush Cheney 00/04 ones and 'Abortion Kills' ones and fish symbols on every car. And I live in a relatively blue area!

Go a little further north up 400 and you'll see the confederate flag proudly being waived.

yeah. surrounded.

[goclark]

19. What State do you live in ?

I would probably be arrested if I lived near you ~ Ms.goclarkObama would stay upset. : ) : (

[Raffi Ella]

23. rofl.

being used to liberal LA? you'd think you were on a different planet if you came to Dixie(Georgia). I'm used to it but it never ceases to amaze me.

[goclark]

25. This summer I 'm going to Texas

Louisiana and Seaside Florida.

Something tells me I'm in for a big surprise ~ Yes, No ?

[Enrique]

8. 11

and like you, zero Romney bumper stickers.

[joeglow3]

14. I had a car with a Romney bumper sticker in my driveway for 2 weeks

A friend of my wife (and her family) were in town for 2 weeks and stayed at our house. They are mormon and were driving one of their parent's car, which had a Romney sticker on it.

[Populist_Prole]

15. Quite a few

As for my neighbors, I have no idea because we never talk politics, although my next door neighbor did have a McCain/Palin sign on his yard.

At work, a lot. From the "buzz" I hear, most are low information types who dislike Dems and liberals for the wrong reason, or due to social issues. There are a few hard line conservatives that are so on every issue, right down the line. I think it's tribalism.

I have one VERY staunch GOP friend that ties to sound knowledgeable and spits out the usual talking points, but he can't hang in a debate because he doesn't have any depth of knowledge of those points and basically votes repub because he is a repub. He equates black people ( other than some conservative firebrands ) with an image of shiftless thugs.

My 2 closest friends are turning rightward. They used to vote Democratic often due to repub's stances on trade/labor. Now that they are retired or nearly so, they let social issues drive their views and are turning ever rightward and are low-information opinionated idiots that do not like President Obama at all. It strains our relations, believe me.

[goclark]

45. Wow! Thanks to you and others

for helping me ~ Living in liberal LA, this is hard to understand.
It is hard for me to believe that anyone would vote for Rmoney other than Rush and his Buddies.

Keep your input coming ~ thanks!

[treestar]

16. Haven't seen an Rmoney sticker

but today in my parking lot at work I saw a McCain/Palin sticker.

I know about twenty Republicans.

[Marinedem]

17. Tons

Not a big deal.

Good friends don't need to discuss politics.

[Seeking Serenity]

20. My favorite person in the whole world is a Republican voter

I'll let you guess who that is.

[GoCubsGo]

21. Too many to count.

It's hard to not substantial numbers of them in this reddest part of a very red state.

Rmoney bumperstickers, on the other hand, none. I have seen at least a dozen for Obama.

[NNN0LHI]

22. I live in one of the reddest areas in Illinois so I am acquaintances with a lot of them

I watch and study them constantly. I don't hide that I am a liberal so they are probably watching and studying me real close too.

Don

[a la izquierda]

24. A lot.

All family members.

[femmocrat]

26. Probably a lot, but I don't discuss politics with them.

I live in a red area of PA, so I can assume that I am surrounded by them. I knew a woman at work who had a poster of bush on her door even though her son was stationed in Iraq. She was extremely patriotic and always reminded everyone that she is a Christian, as if we had short memories.

I really don't have anything to do with people around here. I think they are all a bunch of yahoos.

[hay rick]

27. Too many.

Majority of my family members for starters. Political discussions can be a real minefield. Sad.

[CTyankee]

28. AT least 8 or 9 and I live in the People's Republic of New Haven!

So we don't have a lot but I do know SOME. Two have moved away but I still know them.

I have decided that it is a mental illness and more to be pitied than feared of thought ill of....

[Skittles]

29. I live in Texas

too many to fucking count

I haven't seen a Romney bumper sticker yet though

[kentauros]

30. My father is a Republican.

I will not call him a "Rethug" because I love him.

I haven't bothered to count the number at work, mostly because I don't talk politics on the job and won't engage those that insist on doing so.

[Auggie]

31. I have an in-law who's a teabagger

I only see him once every five years or so.

Maybe one or two in the family. Maybe one or two friends total.

[grantcart]

33. tons. Besides most of the people I work with in my field there is another group

the technical term for them is


relatives.

None of them will bring up politics in my presence, they know they don't have the facts that we do, but

most of them have made some kind of noise saying that they really despise Romney.

[pink-o]

34. Far more than I should, considering where I live!

I just provoked one of my old school mates who I connected with on FB after many years. Stupid, I know...but she was whining about what's a traitor Judge Roberts was, and I politely reminded her how much Rethugs loved him for Citizens United, and how they hated "activist courts" until the activism didn't go the way they wanted. Stupid, I know. Just got fed up.

However, to be fair I know far more liberals. Even at work, I was checking in passengers last Thursday who were cheering and celebrating the decision. One 4 yr old boy danced around with me as I told him he could get health care for another 22 years. Mom and Dad egged him on. The elder couple next to them high-fived him saying they were happy too because their Medicare drug costs were going down.

Awesome day at work!

[doc03]

35. I am in eastern Ohio, it would be a lot easier to list

the handful of Democrats. Seems since that black guy got elected nobody claims to be a Democrat anymore.

[kwolf68]

36. Well...

Family-Mother, Step Dad (father is deceased, was a Teddy Roosevelt Republican), uncles, aunts, cousins...NOT ONE of my extended family is Dem far as I know

Inlaws-ALL Republican, though mother-in-law is very reasonable.

Work-Got a mix there. Don't talk much politics.

Church-Don't attend

Neighbors-Mormons across the street, radical tee-baggers in my cul-de-sac, family on one side Rep I guess, the family on other side is very quiet, mother has background in science and they don't run their mouth any so I figure they may be Dems. No one else outwardly Dem that I know of.

So I am completely surrounded by Republicans. My friends on Facebook, nearly all of them are also Republican except for friends I made in talking on mutual friends threads. They have become some of my favorite people due to our like-mindedness.

I am not worried I am surrounded by such conservatism, but do enjoy a good rap with Democrats on occassion

[cynatnite]

37. Well, the majority in my family are repubs...

We can get in lively debates, but we do not allow these differences to break us apart as a family. In the big picture of life, family is family no matter what. That's how we are.

[frogmarch]

38. I'll put it this way

I know only a handful of democrats - my husband, our kids, their spouses and their kids, and six friends - one of whom lives in England and has dual citizenship.

Everyone else I know is a republican.

[AverageJoe90]

39. I've got a whole bunch of Republicans in my family.

.....though no ReThugs as far as I can tell. (yes, I do believe there is a difference)

[emilyg]

40. Many.

[Iggo]

41. Off the top of my head...

...21 out of 50 coworkers (Los Angeles, CA) and at least 5 neighbors (Whittier, CA) just on my street, one of whom still has a Bush/Cheney lawn sign.

[goclark]

46. So maybe I should have asked ~ of those that know

some/many Republicans, how close do you think the Race will be?


Doesn't seem like there will be any hope of changing the vote decisions made by friends, neighbors ~ so what do we do as Democrats?

Sit back and wait ?

Help the OCCUPY warriors that have given their ALL?

Move to Canada?

Work to stop Voter Suppression?

DONATE our little bit of $$'s to Obama while the 1 % buys the election with ease?

[yewberry]

42. None.

Well, maybe a married couple at work. I sort of ignore them.

Otherwise, no one. I live near Seattle, no Romney bumper stickers here. My family lives in MA and NH, so they know Romney... no Romney supporters there, either.

[Jamaal510]

43. When I did work study for my college's recycling program,

my supervisor Felix claimed he voted Republican in '08. Besides him, I have never met any other Republicans (at least not knowingly). But then again, I live in Oakland, which is the 2nd most liberal city in CA behind only Berkeley. So far I have seen a ton of Obama signs here, and only one Ron Paul sign and one Meg Whitman sign a month ago. No Romney signs or anybody else. I didn't even see any McCain signs in '08.

[Raine]

44. I'm in LA County (along the coast) but I know many, like neighbors on both sides of me

my vet and most of my relatives ... I like them inspite of it.

Edited to add ... that we respect each other opinions in agreeing to disagree and we do not talk politics.