Posted on 11/04/2014 11:59:33 AM PST by mdittmar
It's only fitting:Check in with voters at Our Mother of Sorrows church in Louisville, Kentucky, to get a sense of the sour mood rippling across the country this Election Day.
Seventy-four-year-old Jim Brinley, casting his ballot for Republicans, thinks an over-reaching government is "ruining us" and wants to "get back to government as it should be."
Democrat Keisha Matlock, a 38-year-old college student,wonders aloud,"Why do we even vote?" as she casts her ballot for Democrats.
Matlock sees "constant griping back and forth about who's right. And, who's going to do this. And, who's going to do that in office. Sometimes, they say these things and they never do it when they get in there."
Yet there is hope mixed in with the voices of anger and cynicism.
Listen to Danielle Glover, 28, who voted in Commerce City, an industrial suburb northeast of Denver. She hopes Democrats can hold off a Republican takeover of the Senate. But whatever the results, she says, "I would hope that once we get past the election, that elected officials from both parties can sit down and work on policies together."
Listen to construction worker Rebecca Cziryak,who was out at dawn Tuesday to vote the Republican line in New Jersey, predicting it could mean more job sites in her future.
"Believe it or not,when the Republicans are in full force, I work more," says Cziryak,who voted at a community college in Gloucester Township,near Camden.
Listen to Kristi Johnson, a pharmacist who voted at a community college in Raleigh, N.C., also hoping Republicans retake the Senate.
Republicans, she says, could "help us iron out" problems with the president's health care law and other matters.
As for President Barack Obama, who's not on the ballot but still very much on the minds of many voters, Johnson says: "I'm just waiting for him to be gone."
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You said it!
Funny, I’m not sour today.
That 38 year old college student shouldn’t vote.
yeah I’m in a sour mood because whatever we win today may be too little too late to give us back America.
Actually,I was quite happy to cast my vote;)
When Republicans win, it’s a sour mood, it’s a vindictive, stupid electorate.
When Democrats win, it’s sunshine and rainbows produced by an enlightened, happy electorate.
Go to Hell Yahoo.
A 38yo college student?
Yup, and with a name like “keisha”, one can guess which side she did indeed vote.
Listen to Danielle Glover, 28, who voted in Commerce City, an industrial suburb northeast of Denver. She hopes Skittle pooping unicorns will ride turtles through waters made of butterfly smiles “I would hope that once we get past the election, that elected officials from both parties can sit down and work on policies together.”
Exactly! Liberals are depressed. That’s a great day in my book!
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Keisha wonders why we even vote because she thought Obola was going to take care of everything.
This is for the longterm a fight to take America back.
I get a chuckle out of people who think cynicism is something new. Change the political labels and this could have been written 200 years ago.
” That 38 year old college student shouldn’t vote.”
Never will make it past freshman.
Yep! Because the libs KNOW conservatives are voting to start taking AMERICA back!
Me neither but I guess we're supposed to be, at least according to the press. (Unlike the 2006 midterm when voters joyously repudiated the evil GWB. My goodness, how things change depending on the party involved.)
Sorry everyone, that’s just me, I need a shower.
How long (tonight) before some newscaster says the voters didn’t mean it, they were just having a temper tantrum?
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