More from my mom on politics (2 of 2): Her GOP co-workers.

I also asked my mom if she had heard anything from her GOP co-workers at the library about the general election, and she said not really, but she stays away from politics.

The (white) (late-30s) (married w/kids) computer guy at the library is die-hard GOP, but my mom doesn't know why.

In terms of other coworkers, she says after everyone thought the Iraq War was a sham, my mom broached the topic with this (older) (white) (female) coworker, and then the woman starts going off about how the war was necessary because of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

"But [the woman's name]," my mom was like, "They never found any, it was a made-up excuse," which made the woman start going off on how the mainstream media was lying.

Another of her coworkers is a (white) (mid-30s) woman who runs marathons and got hurt and is now on Disability even though she still trains and goes on cruises and walks around a ton, but she votes GOP because she thinks she deserve government help, but other people don't.

Yet another of her coworkers is a (white) (mid-40s) woman whose husband works for the state and whose kids both work for the Mich. auto companies that got bailed out, but she never really talks about that.

I find the last two cases interesting, b/c they seem to exemplify the recent NYTimes piece about how many GOP voters actually depend quite a lot on social programs but either think they don't or vote anyway for politicians who oppose them.