My "Republican" father's reasoning for voting for Obama

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 12:57 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 12:57

My father is a lifelong Republican who has watched the party move away from him, for he is a conservative in the "conserve and not waste" sense, as he has moved away from it as well. The sum of the rightward movement of the party as well as his slight shift to the left has resulted in him being very far away from the republican party on economic, military, social, and energy issues. He was finally brought to vote for a "D" for president in 2004 due to the War. Now the energy and financial crises have solidified his vote for what appears to be years to come. He wrote this e-mail to my family today and i found it a beautiful explanation of why Obama won his vote.

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