This is an interesting read, but the writer is definitely a liberal or has bought into the depiction that the majority of media has painted of the Right. Which I think is why Republicans will have a hard time winning in the future.
I personally believe that her reasons for voting for Obama are so completely ignorant that it is proof of the voter base being completely unaware of anything relevant. Where else would she have gotten her information other than Jon Stewart and other left sources?
I'm sorry, but the main stream Republican view does not believe that Obama is a Muslim. I don't think even the blow-hards she talks about share that view nor was it in Romney's campaign.
She says up front she is a white, suburban, educated, pro-life, pro-gay marriage Democrat in Colorado. Basically exactly the type of person Governor Romney needed to have vote for him to win.
The entire article is well written and thoughtful. Her five points on why she voted for the President rather than Governor Romney were:
1) I don’t believe Obama is a closet Muslim with a radical socialist agenda to undermine America. I don’t believe he has a false birth certificate and a fake Social Security card. I think he is a deeply sincere, smart, principled man who is far from perfect but deserves a chance to continue what he has tried to begin.
2) I’m more comfortable taking a risk on Obama’s economic agenda than Romney’s. The numbers are starting to look up. I’d rather hedge my bets with Keynes than Adam Smith. Mitt wants to cut spending and slash taxes, and give most of those tax breaks to the richest Americans. That doesn’t square with my sense of what’s rational or what’s just. We’ve tried that before, and that Kool-Aid does not trickle down for me.
3) I’m willing to take a chance on Obamacare. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than a system that excludes millions and is dedicated to lining the pockets of insurance companies whose primary mission is not to cover care but to deny it. The Affordable Care Act is not “socialized medicine” in which the government dictates my health care. It’s a hybrid system that worked in Massachusetts; I’m ready to see how it goes in the rest of the U.S.
4) I care deeply about protecting this planet, our home. How could we elect a president who is so cavalier about God’s creation that he wants to dismantle the EPA? Really? The clean air and clean water acts established under Richard Nixon aren’t important to keep for our kids? I can’t imagine a world leader not grappling with the problem of global climate change. Solyndra was a debacle, but to suggest that we ought not to pursue green energy isn’t just short-sighted, it’s grave foolishness.
5) I believe a graduated tax system is the most moral means of structuring an economy. I think that rich folks who benefited so disproportionately from a wildly deregulated Wall Street need to return to shouldering more of our shared burden. Luke 12:48 says, “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”
I'm at a loss as to why someone would call that explanation ignorant.