I disagree. Also if Rice voted for Obama, why would anyone want her as a candidate?
There's not a scintilla of substance to substantiate this "fact" that has been making the rounds of FR for years.
It's long past time to stop repeating it.
She has never revealed her vote. She has said she is a Republican and supports the Republican nominee.
How people have spun this into speculation and onward into "fact" says far more about them than it does Condi Rice.
Good God. A man who voted to confirm the judge who became Obama's first Supreme Court pick was the last great hope of some "conservatives' here. That's a fact, that's his record. It's indisputable. Rather than discuss such horrifying things of substance about actual candidates, too many engage in ridiculous speculation about a former Bush official's secret ballot vote, the revelation of which is no one's business.
The fact is, Rice is damned either way she may have cast her ballot: McCain or Obama (or maybe some other candidate, who knows).
Half the bigots will see a Rice vote for Obama as evidence of race over loyalty, partisanship, etc. The other half will see a Rice vote for McCain as a traitor to her kind and proof she's every vile thing they believed when she was part of W's administration.
At this moment in history, the only answer for a trained and talented diplomat, or anyone in public life (retired or not), is no answer.