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Voices in Crawford: ‘We need to protect our country’
This from Trib staffer Erin Quinn, who’s talking to a lunchtime crowd voting at Crawford’s fire station.
As John and Amanda Devorak pulled into the Crawford Fire Station, they were still deciding who to vote for.
“This might take us a while in here,” said John Devorak, a 36-year-old contractor, who lives in the Crawford area.
Both described themselves as independents. John Devorak said they planned to look at the ballot, and weigh out the pros and cons on each candidate before marking the box — sometimes he said, it’s going to be the lesser of two evils.
“I’m real big on mudslinging,” John Devorak said. “So, sometimes it’s just the candidate who did it the least.”
Keith Louis, a 48-year-old Valley Mills roofing contractor, said he would vote for Sen. John McCain or president.
“Thompson was my first choice, but he’s not in it anymore, so I have to go with McCain,” Louis said. The main issue that drove Louis to the polls today, he said, was simple: “We need to protect our country.”
Just after him, a Crawford woman who declined to say her name, walked into the site where President Bush has historically cast his vote and proudly said she was voting for Obama.
She sighed, before giving her reason: “We just need a change.”
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