If you don’t have a picture ID you should not get to vote!!

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While right from center, McCain had an open mind and often went to the other side of the aisle. He was more American than Republican. What happened? Why did I move to Obama late in the game?

First, his choice of Palin as his VP running mate was the beginning of the end for me. He insulted my intelligence with that choice. It was a typical ‘Democrat’ move - picking a running mate to gain votes. Republicans usually pick a candidate to help govern.

Secondly, other than the last few days of the campaign, I saw an aging McCain grow slower and less of a leader. He was not the McCain I was planning to give my vote …

I like Senator John McCain. I grew not to like presidential candidate McCain.

John McCain failed to defeat Barack Obama for a complement of reasons, but the war hero’s personality was not a significant player on that list.

The Obama victory was nothing more than the artful understanding of marketing to the power demographics. In that sense, McCain’s defeat was inevitable, even if the media had not coronated Obama and castigated McCain at the start of the campaign.

The measure of Obama’s popular vote win comes from his domination of the Black vote (98 percent), the Hispanic vote (79 percent), the 18 to 25 vote (82 percent) and women, by a two-to-one margin.

These figures do not at all take into account democratic party voter fraud, suppression of military votes or other anomalies such as busloads of college students showing up for voter-day registration and casting as the prelude to their Obama rallies.

John McCain’s voter base was overwhelmingly both men and women older than 65, and white men, Joe the Plumbers, if you will.

For the elderly, who have worked and saved their whole lives, the prospect of Obama’s sweeping tax confiscation was a resounding alarm bell. Obama’s plan to double the capital gains tax will crack the nest eggs of most seniors, – that is, the sale of their homes to underwrite their final years.

For those seniors who plan to live from their own retirement savings, which they built during lifetimes of restraint and sacrifice, Obama’s plan will double the government’s cut after the sale of their appreciated investments. Obama’s “death tax” plans are even more chilling.

Most seniors who grew up in a different America have that silly notion that what they’ve worked for their whole lives is actually theirs.

When you tear off the bumper sticker of “Hope and Change” the real Obama slogan is as plain as the sky: Vote for me, and I will take away other Americans’ stuff and give it to you.

He spoke to that demographic and forged his – and the nation’s – destiny.