I live in a red state. Despite that, Obama carried my state easily.

I hear two basic criticisms from the GOP that dislike Obama in my state. The first is a basic questioning of his allegiance. They tend to make a big deal out of his middle name "Hussein", its a kind of lowbrow thing going on that the GOP plays with the rednecks. The GOP is pretty good at creating brands, thats their neat thing that they came up with after spending more money in the least amount of time than any administration in the history of the entire country. And creating bigger, clumsier bureaucracies so inept that our response to natural disasters was so tied up in red tape that american bodies were just left in the streets to rot during the last big first responder crisis.

The second is that he's in the pockets of the big government lobby.

Whats really fun is to see how they light up when they learn that he's neither of the above, and how the lights finally go on upstairs with the independent minded and conservative GOP that are just fed up with the whole lobbyist/nepotism thing going on.

And as a result, he gets their support. Obama moves in fast in that crowd and wins friends.

We just had, down here in the south - a seat go to a Democrat that was held by a Republican for decades. Some posted here about how that Democrat was running political ads that echoed Obama's.

No surprise. The Dems are united. Its time to think about - not compromising anything and just winning the good americans that have been duped by the GOP.

Obama's got long coattails .