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From a comment of mine in NCrissieB's great diary.
Last year Barack Obama whipped John McCain 66.8 million votes to 58.3 million. Electoral votes: 365 to 173. Landslide.
Let's be extremely charitable and say that "only" 10% of those who voted for McCain were and remain batshit crazy and hard-wired to hate ANY Obama/Democratic initiative: that still leaves 5.8 million crazy, bigoted, loudmouthed, paranoid, willfully ignorant, banshee freaks out there -- out here.