Pardon me for being cynical about the PUMA factor, but my own experience with McCain suggests that Ol’ Crusty’s admirers might not vote against Big Ears in the numbers we’re hoping to see.
Like many freepers I was decidedly cool to McCain, and it was only when it became a choice of a GOPer I don’t particularly like and a Democrat I detest that the former became my choice (palin helped there!).
I suspect a lot of Hillary’s supporters will revert to party form when the time comes to pull the lever. For many, voting Republican is probably only a little less distasteful than rolling in dog dirt.
But we’ll see in a few days. Sure hope I’m wrong.
“18 million people voted for Hillary in the Democratic primaries. 35% of those 18 million voting for McCain on Nov. 4th, 2008, will translate into about 6.4 million votes for McCain - votes that Obama will not get - and would have gotten had he chosen Hillary as his veep.
This may account for why the MSM pollsters have skewed their polls and rampantly oversampled Dems, and undersampled Repubs - along with tainting their polls with extra blacks and college students being polled.”
Ok. This statement about oversampling makes no sense. Why do pollsters oversample Rats, just because a lot of Hillary voters will vote for McCain.
This should not bring any more Rat voters than GOP. More than likely the Rats will have no more than a 3% Rat advantage in turnout.
If my turnout prediction is true, and a lot of PUMA voters are going to vote for McCain, then he will get much more voters for him than predicted.
HRC supporter here. I’m voting for McCain because I trust him. I don’t trust O. I can speak for many democrats in my family and in my business— 90 percent are voting Republican, most for the first time in their lives.
And as for downticket voting, there’s only one Democrat getting my vote this time around. I’ve had it with that corrupt party.