"...which pretty well defines the core of the Republican Party..."

[Human Torch]

Cracks appear in NASCAR voters' Republican loyalty
Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:16am ET138

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=sportsNews&storyID=2006-08-17T121526Z_01_N24358398_RTRUKOC_0_US-NASCAR.xml&archived=False

By Ben Klayman

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Travis Johnson is just the type of voter the Democratic Party hopes to win back in its effort to gain control of Congress in the November election.

Baking in the sun at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the 23-year-old Danville, Illinois, resident wears a black T-shirt sporting NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson's face. The fan looks like the epitome of the young, white, socially conservative, working-class voters who have been key backers of Republicans in the last decade. But with U.S. soldiers dying in Iraq, war raging in the Middle East and gasoline prices soaring, he is not sure how he will vote.

"For the most part, I'm a toss-up. I'm not dedicated to either party," Johnson said earlier this month as he and 270,000 other fans waited for the start of the Allstate 400 race organized by NASCAR, the official body for stock-car racing. While such indecision presents an opening for Democrats, Republicans remain the party of choice among the fans who have made NASCAR one of America's most popular sports.

"I would dearly love for the Democrats to spend millions of dollars trying to persuade NASCAR fans to vote for the Democrats," Republican pollster Whit Ayres said. "They tend to be disproportionately southern, disproportionately white and disproportionately male, which pretty well defines the core of the Republican Party."



U.S. President George W. Bush poses with a racing suit presented to him by 2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup champion Tony Stewart (R) and his team including team owner Joe Gibbs (3rd R) on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in this photo taken on January 24, 2006. NASCAR fans, or more specifically 'NASCAR dads,' were highly courted voters in 2004, a group targeted by conservative Republicans after their earlier successes with suburban 'soccer moms' and blue-collar 'Reagan Democrats.' REUTERS/Jason Reed

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Ayers left out one.... disproportionately stupid.

[Pierre.Suave]

3. HAHAHA

Disproportionately Stoopid...

[LonelyLRLiberal]

4. Don't forget "disproportionately racist" too.

Let's face it - especially in the South Republicans are generally racists. Don't forget how the South suddenly turned Republican.

[angstlessk]

2. A gol dern repuglikin can say it, but when Dean said it all hell broke

loose and he was cruicified! After Dean made that comment, I visited the RNC website and it looked like a gaggle of flamingos..all pink heads just shinning through, I guess they are all either bald or wearing some sort of rug on their heads?