"Bush campaign ads using team"

[kandrathe]

You make way too many assumptions about the midwest. I grew up on a beef cattle farm, and I went to my junior prom with an Iranian girl. There are hundreds of thousands of new immigrants into the US every year, and believe it or not, many of them choose states like Nebraska, or Ohio to live in.

As far as political opinion goes, I think we have the same spectrum of thought. Its just that the extremes are not as popular here. The two party system tends to marginalize those extremes, but a vote for the third party is not a wasted vote. The state were I live elected a third party libertarian Governor, and the two major parties were flabbergasted that it could happen. The majority of people in this state are descendants of immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia, and our opinions, values and attitudes reflect that experience.

I would venture that there are more members of the Nazi Party, or Communist Party here than in the Netherlands, and certainly more than you or I would like to believe. They are just not that visible to the mainstream, as they tend to get persecuted by the majority.