{"id":2311,"date":"2008-08-19T16:33:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2008-08-19T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T20:33:10","slug":"military-overwhelmingly-support-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2311","title":{"rendered":"Military Overwhelmingly Support McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like writing headlines that I know will make the little pinhead trolls around here go crazy.<\/p>\n

In this post <\/a>about Obama trying to pander to the VFW, Rooney left this comment:<\/p>\n

How come McCain can\u2019t even win the support of the troops in his presidential bid? First he loses the military vote to Ron Paul. Now I see on Fox News that Obama leads McCain almost 2 to 1 in campaign contributions from military members. That has to hurt you guys. Seems like the vets on this board are out of touch with the overwhelming majority of the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is an excellent example of how liberals think; they don\u2019t! They just regurgitate hyperbole and talking points. They either lack intellect or are just happily spewing lies wherever they can.<\/p>\n

The actual headline from FoxNews was even more damning than Rooney remembered it, \u201cObama collects six times as much cash from military doners!\u201d<\/p>\n

A couple of things occurred to me when I heard the same hyperbole that Rooney apparently bought hook, line and sinker. First, in all of my time in the military I didn\u2019t meet many people who would give a dime to any politician and secondly military members (at least the ones that are politically engaged at all) are a very safe Republican voting group.<\/p>\n

So, I went to the actual polling data from The Boston Globe<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Through June 30, Obama had received 134 donations totaling about $61,000 to 99 totaling about $45,500 for Paul, and 26 contributions totaling less than $11,000 for McCain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s a grand total of 259 total contributors! That could possibly be the single most insignificant donor block in the history of presidential politics.<\/p>\n

To correct Rooney; 259 is not the \u201coverwhelming majority\u201d of a single infantry battalion. Being so \u201cin touch\u201d is probably why I know that.<\/p>\n

Contributors aside, the real question of support is the vote.<\/p>\n

As I suspected, members of the military favor McCain over Obama by a landslide 22 points!<\/p>\n

According to Gallup, McCain leads Obama 56 percent to 34 percent, with 11 percent expressing no opinion or picking someone else.<\/p>\n

Gallup said the poll is based on aggregated data from its daily tracking poll between Aug. 5 and Aug. 17, involving more than 11,000 registered voters, including 2,238 military veterans. Veterans are defined as those who are or have been members of the US military. Obama led McCain 46% to 43% among all registered voters during the period. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know that Democrat talking points are often totally bogus and they like to prey upon the intellectually weak to spread them but I hope this helps out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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