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(Reuters) - Sheryl Harris, a voluble 52-year-old with a Virginia drawl, voted twice for George W. Bush. Raised Baptist, she is convinced -- despite all evidence to the contrary -- that President Barack Obama, a practicing Christian, is Muslim.
So in this year's presidential election, will she support Mitt Romney? Not a chance.
"Romney's going to help the upper class," said Harris, who earns $28,000 a year as activities director of a Lynchburg senior center. "He doesn't know everyday people, except maybe the person who cleans his house."
She'll vote for Obama, she said: "At least he wasn't brought up filthy rich."
White lower- and middle-income voters such as Harris are wild cards in this vituperative presidential campaign. With only a sliver of the electorate in play nationwide, they could be a deciding factor in two southern swing states, Virginia and North Carolina.
Reuters/Ipsos polling data compiled over the past several months shows that, across the Bible Belt, 38 percent of these voters said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who is "very wealthy" than one who isn't. This is well above the 20 percent who said they would be less likely to vote for an African-American.
The rest: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/11/us-usa-election-poll-bible-belt-idUSBRE88A05H20120911
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)glowing
(12,233 posts)votewill vote for President Obama over the filthy, rich Robme...
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)Issues. Think. When people can't get past what amounts to a freakin' civil war mentality, they deserve to be left behind.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)jenw2
(374 posts)be troubled by an xtian cultist? Obviously the article is a complete lie.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Whomever's god is more awesomely powerful wins!
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)All those southern red states are still red.
progressoid
(49,988 posts)But whether or not they'll still vote for him is yet to be seen.
pamela
(3,469 posts)at every Southern church in the country. I guarantee that.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/13/former-mormon-explains-why-mitt-romney-should-never-be-president/
Within two days it would be an email being forwarded to every inbox in the country.