I live in the Suburbs of St. Louis County and this election cycle I decided to volunteer and work for the Missouri Democratic Party to help get Sen. Claire McCaskill re-elected. I mainly went out canvasing to help ID and persuade voters for Claire McCaskill. When doing this of course I ran into some hardcore republican voters. Which was fine for the most part, but I started noticing something on my second day canvasing.
Every time I knocked on the door of a republican voter they would only half open their door, question me way I was there, and as soon as I said I was with the Dem. they said go away and closed the door. Some took it a step farther went on wild rants, and others even threaten me. I never saw this at any of the houses voting Dem. Even the Rep. who were voting Mitt Romney, but not Todd Akin acted like sane normal people. I know most people are going to say "Oh, those are the dumb redneck republicans..." However the house with the loonies were only in extremely wealthy subdivisions.
So this begs me to ask the question, are hardcore Republicans voters insane? I mean who shouts at a volunteer "The Dems want to kill us all!" or even threaten to have their husband beat me up if I came there ever again. This isn't normal behavior.
