A Vote Against Self-Interest

I heard an interesting thing on the "local" BBC radio broadcast. The reporter with his British Accent was touring "real" America. He noted the hard scrabble life that most of these mid-Westerners were living and noted that their passion for the McCain/Palin ticket was decidedly a misguided one, since McCain's policies were most likely to make their life more difficult.

In his lovely European way, the reporter noted that discomfort and living a hard scrabble life was a matter for pride for these people and a rough life just showed how tough they were and this is why they voted against their own self-interest.

I guess it was either that or they were masochists.