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This Is Why Some People Vote

I read this article today about the Democratic resurgence in the state of Ohio. It turns out that people are fed up with all of the Republican corruption and failed governance, and Ohioans are warming up to the Democratic party as a whole.

While that part was interesting, I was shell-shocked to read this bit:

She’ll vote Republican up and down the ticket, she said, but Iraq weighs on her mind. “I was all for Bush going in there because I thought he had prayed about it,” the 77-year-old Greenville resident said. But, she added, “It isn’t going well and I don’t know what can be done about it.”

Wow. This woman liked the idea of invading Iraq because she believed President Bush had prayed about it. That’s why she liked it. I’m shocked. I don’t know why. People think and believe things for all sorts of reasons, plenty of which are sillier than “because he had prayed about it”. But I am highly dismayed by the fact that President Bush tells people he has prayed about something, and for that reason alone, some of these people are completely on board. How are you supposed to have an informed, well-reasoned electorate when people make decisions this way?