I didn't vote period .... not because I don't follow politics but because I do intently ....
the same people that are now accusing people who voted for Obama of being brainwashed are the same pricks that blindly followed behind G.W. and the other masters of war for the last eight years ... both sides are right about that ... you are all brainwashed into voting for politicians that don't give two licks about you or your families.
it's like you are either Yankees fans or Red Sox fans ... there is no arguing with you, you picked your teams (Democrats or Republicans) and now nothing on earth, short of maybe catching your respective party leaders stealing your wallets, is going to make you even consider that you might have it all wrong ....
Americans need to snap out of their political immaturity and begin to educate themselves on what the real problems are, namely that a couple of rich white business owners and bankers control us to such an extent they can move jobs overseas, drive down wages, institute layoffs, and royally bend us all over the table .... and the sick thing is that the wealth that they use to purchase this power was created by us, the masses of workers that make cars we can't afford to drive, work in restaurants we can't afford to eat at .... workers make the wealth only to have it stolen and horded or gambled away in the stock market ....
I'm pretty sick of all these politicians, sick of the two parties, which by the way would be the same party in just about every other country in the world ... and really sick of partisans and party boosters like many of the people who answered here.
the only way we can fix this country is if we dump the major parties, BOTH of them, and start to build democracy within our workplaces.
ALL POWER TO THE WORKERS! DOWN WITH POLITICIANS AND BANKERS!