Okay, I'm Canadian, so you can take my opinion at whatever it may be worth.

I do know several dozen Americans, mostly through academia, but also people I've met through travel, & just by living close to the border. Most of my American friends & acquaintances are died-in-the-wool liberal elitist democrats. No way around it. Most of them didn't support either Clinton or Obama in the primaries. Probably three-quarters of the ones over 55 are, for the first time in their lives, voting Republican. Even the anit-military peaceniks. I guess you could call them the "Elitist liberal tree-hugging-anti-war-latte-si­pping-intellectuals for McCain."

Looking in from the outside, it's hard to be too critical, though. Especially with some of the anti-native campaigns our conservatives are running in suburbs & cottage country, which are totally ignored by our media. At least in the USA, people are asking the question, "Is it racism?"