Published 11/6/2008
at L.A. Times - Politics
The reasons are as varied as its retirees, who cast 52% of their ballots for Obama to 45% for McCain.
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Like many of his neighbors in the Orange County retirement village of Laguna Woods, Dave Blodgett, 87, might seem like a natural John McCain man. He fought on Navy PT boats in the Pacific during World War II and was moved by the Republican presidential candidate's story of survival in a Vietnamese prison camp.
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