Small-town Wisconsin feeling like Romney doesn't care (LAT)

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-small-town-wisconsin-20120922,0,2543317.story

Small-town Wisconsin feeling like Romney doesn't care
In rural areas where Mitt Romney is counting on overwhelming support, voters identify him as an elite who isn't concerned about the problems of the working class.
By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times

BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. — This small town exudes the kind of old-fashioned American values that Mitt Romney highlighted in his convention speech. A garden club organizes bright flower displays on the streets, and residents patronize the two archery clubs, the three barber shops, the shooting range and the churches scattered among the town's leafy streets.

But some residents in this town of 3,600, located in a swing county that voted for Obama in 2008 but supported Republicans for both governor and U.S. Senate in 2010, say their concern that Romney doesn't really understand people like them has grown in recent weeks.

"I think he's a little out of touch. He has grown up as kind of an elite," said Darren Durman, who runs the Merchant General Store, a candy and toy shop in a 1912 building where Durman's great-grandfather once worked selling shoes. Romney's recent comments about the 47% of America that doesn't pay taxes only solidified Durman's decision to support Obama, who visits the state Saturday.

"Basically, he was saying anyone that was going to vote for Obama was a deadbeat, but most of us are hardworking people," said Durman, an independent who voted for George W. Bush in both 2000 and 2004 and Obama in 2008. ...

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2. My deadbeat great-great-grandfather is buried

right outside of Black River Falls.

He was married in Ireland in 1845, emigrated to New York City with a new baby in 1846 and within two months was in the army to fight in the war against Mexico.

He fought through the entire war and was awarded a land grant to become one of the European settlers in western Wisconsin.

They lost four daughters to scarlet fever within two weeks of each other and he died of hepatitis he caught during the war. They buried him in the poor house cemetery.

Yeah, he and his wife were deadbeats.

Romney's an asshole.

Black River Falls is in a beautiful part of the state, I imagine the leaves are beginning to turn right about now.

[Scuba]

4. If you haven't fished Robinson Creek near Fall Hall, you haven't really lived.

[postulater]

6. Brook trout?

[Scuba]

7. You've tried it, then.

[postulater]

8. Not that stream.

I grew up in central Wisconsin and learned to appreciate small stream trout from my father. Brookies were always the best, hardest to catch, best fight for the size and best taste.

They were never planted either.

I hope it is still as great as I remember and I hope those streams never go away.

[Cha]

3. That tape exposing Romney

was a big deal. It only verifies the impression that he's been giving since his "$10,000 bet" primary days.

Thank goodness it was recording or there are many who wouldn't be questioning Romney's "care" factor now. Not with fox and limbaugh blaring lies throughout the country. And, Romeny, himself Lying like he was a sociopath.. oh wait!

[Wounded Bear]

5. Go with the feeling.....he doesn't....