"They Want Blood"

A reader writes:

I too live here in a deep red state. The hatred of Obama is felt all over...they want blood. I can't imagine it being close to this bad in the purple/blue states, or else Obama would be polling below 40%.  There's a fever here in the "blood" states, for sure, but I think it extends to the demographic that you refer to all the time.

I work for a small municipality and a 20 year old guy just got elected to city council runiing basically as a member of the Glen Beck party. His friends show up at council meeting with 9/12 Project t-shirts. And, yes, he tries to extend Glen's political ideology, whatever it is at the moment, to his work as a city councilman. It often comes off as boorish and combative, cause it really doesn't related to a lot of the things he votes on, but it's there nonetheless.

And what if the Rs campaign on repealing HC legislation? Then all the Ds have to do is run ads telling everyone aunt Nelda ain't gonna be getting insurance after all, because she has a pre-existing condition.There are good things this bill does that the Rs can be portrayed as now wanting to repeal.  It goes both ways.