"Not whom I favor..."

I was talking to a lady the other day, and she mentioned a photo on the cover of Newsweek that showed John McCain & Sarah Palin.  She brought it up to make fun of what a lousy photo it was ("they couldn't even take the time to photoshop out the glare on her glasses?!?"), but what she said after that struck me.  She said "even though they're not the candidates whom I favor, they could have at least used a decent picture."  It struck me because she wasn't disparaging, negative, or even passionate about the politics behind her statement.  She wasn't trying to persuade my opinion for or against a political party...  she was just commenting on the photo and that's all.  I happened to know beforehand that she supported the democratic ticket because she had a large OBAMA '08 sign stuck in her lawn.  But when I was talking with her, she just commented on the photo and left her political views out of it.  It was obviously really refreshing to me...  I'm so used to any mention of a political issue bringing forth frantic discourse about the fallacy of any opposing viewpoint, it was just nice to be able to talk 'politics' (like how dumb a candidate's picture looked) without assuming battle stations.  Is it possible that people with differing political views have actually thought through the issues and just see things differently?  Wow, so you mean that it's not my job to "enlighten" anyone who might have a different opinion??  Don't get me wrong, I think it's great to talk things through and take in other perspectives, but this whole business about signing on to a party line and then following them to the grave is just ridiculous.  It's by far the worst thing about American politics in my opinion, and the reason that the 2-party system is inadequate.  I wish an independent actually had a chance to win.