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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Oct 22, 2008 12:58pm |
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| Category | Election Guide |
| Media | Newspaper - Concord Monitor |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Marge Bonneville voted for John McCain in the 2000 New Hampshire primary and wrote him in on her general election ballot after he lost the Republican nomination to George W. Bush. She did the same four years later, when McCain wasn't even running.
For a while after Democrat Barack Obama won her over last year, the retired postmaster still thought she could live with having McCain as president. Not anymore.
"I look at McCain now and say, 'How can anyone want him as our president?' " said Bonneville, 58, a lifelong Republican from Tilton. This year, she's changed her registration to undeclared and is volunteering for Obama's campaign in New Hampshire.
But McCain still has his supporters in a state where voters arguably know him as well as if not better than his constituents back home in Arizona.
Andy Collins, a carpenter from Walpole, was torn between McCain and Obama just before the primary
but voted for the Republican and will do so again in November. He called Obama a gifted speaker, but he said with the nation at war and his son headed to Afghanistan, he wants McCain in the White House.
"Obama talks a good game and he gets people to vote for him, but I'm really worried on the world stage if he becomes president," said Collins, an independent. |
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