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In Democratic primary, expect a GOP turnout
The Houston Chronicle ^ | Feb. 25, 2008, 11:48PM | Bennett Roth

Posted on 02/26/2008 4:59:28 AM PST by urtax$@work

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......this conservative community southeast of Austin, politics is clearly in the air these days.

What has particularly struck stylist Pete Campos is how many of his Republican customers are talking about voting for Barack Obama in the March 4 Democratic presidential primary, motivated more, he surmised, by a strong dislike of Hillary Clinton than a strong attachment to Obama..............

.........According to polling, as well as anecdotal evidence, an unusually large number of Republicans and independents may cast their votes in the Democratic contest next week, a prospect that could tip the outcome of what polls show is now a tight race. Such defections could also affect the many local and state legislative primaries around the state.........


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; elections; gop; primaries; tx2008; txprimary
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1 posted on 02/26/2008 4:59:30 AM PST by urtax$@work
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To: urtax$@work

IMHO, if I were going to place a strategic vote for a Democrat, I’d be voting for HRC in order to keep her in the race and force a showdown at the convention.


2 posted on 02/26/2008 5:04:09 AM PST by dawn53
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To: urtax$@work

I suspect that in a lot of these states where independents and republicans can come in they have to vote for Barrack in the past few contests. Why not, our race is long over.

May I suggest though that these people vote for Hillary and not Barry. Why? Because there is only a very slim chance that Hillary can win the nomination and if she does it will be through underhanded dealing and fracture the Democratic party. However, we need Hillary to stay in the race all the way to the convention. This will further muddle Barry’s chances in November.

Vote Hillary!!!


3 posted on 02/26/2008 5:04:27 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: dawn53

I will be voting today in Texas for Hillary. We need to keep this circus going with a good train wreck at their convention.


4 posted on 02/26/2008 5:05:42 AM PST by engrpat
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

GMTA...we posted less than 20 seconds apart, and expressed the same idea.


5 posted on 02/26/2008 5:05:47 AM PST by dawn53
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

I will probably cross over in Ohio. I was planning to vote for BHO but now may go with Hillary just to keep things going. The drawback is that I live in a small town and, frankly, will be embarrassed asking for a Democrat ballot. I just hope that I do not know the poll worker.


6 posted on 02/26/2008 5:06:53 AM PST by Comparative Advantage
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To: urtax$@work

LOL...the msm is worried that Republicans might pick the Texas Democrat primary winner. It was just fine when Democrats in GA, FL, and SC turned out to give the GOP nomination to John McCain, however. As they say, “Payback’s a Hillary.”
Every Republican I know is going to vote for Obama, or has voted for him already in early voting. Hillary has probably already lost the Texas primary, but we will be happy to have her continue to spend her dwindling funds on her bad TV ads in our 22 TV markets in this vast state. (And this woman thought she could run the country!)


7 posted on 02/26/2008 5:07:24 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
Vote Hillary!!!

GET HER OUT, REMOVE ALL DOUBT.

I'd have to cut off my hand before I'd vote for the bitch.


8 posted on 02/26/2008 5:07:48 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: dawn53
Here in Ohio, I plan to vote for HRC for the very same reason. I would like nothing more than to keep this tempest in a teapot going as long as possible, hopefully to the convention.

Voting for Obaaaama at this point do not really accomplish anything....

9 posted on 02/26/2008 5:08:30 AM PST by The Forgotten Man (He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always pays....)
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To: urtax$@work
I guess it's a choice between voting McCain (a RINO), Huckabee (mathematically impossible to win) or Obama (just to throw mud in the face of Shrillary).
I've vote Obama and send a fax to her HQ with my named signed very large so her beady eyes may read it without resorting to her spectacles.
10 posted on 02/26/2008 5:08:40 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Agreed. The strategy would be to vote for Hillary to continue the chaos within the Party of Defeat.

But underlying this is the utter foolishness of allowing anyone but registered members of a party to vote in that parties primary. It helps advance the LEAST qualified candidates ( the one’s the other party deems easiest to beat), and is bad for the country in the long run.


11 posted on 02/26/2008 5:09:45 AM PST by StatenIsland (The '08 Election: It's about the survival of our country, not making a point...)
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To: NeoCaveman; North Coast Conservative

ping


12 posted on 02/26/2008 5:09:58 AM PST by boxerblues
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To: engrpat
I will be voting today in Texas for Hillary. We need to keep this circus going with a good train wreck at their convention.

That's the plan. Pass it on.

13 posted on 02/26/2008 5:11:41 AM PST by McGruff (Tribal name 'One whose back bleeds' or 'Many knives in back'?)
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To: urtax$@work

Conservatives need to vote for Hillary and keep her in the race. Disrupting the Dem selection process has to take precedence over voting against someone you don’t like.


14 posted on 02/26/2008 5:12:21 AM PST by saganite (Lust type what you what in the “tagline” space)
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To: urtax$@work
latest statewide poll released last week found that 15 percent of Texas Republicans who said they will support the GOP nominee in November plan nonetheless on voting for Obama next week.


I am going for the cross over and voting anti hillary
15 posted on 02/26/2008 5:13:16 AM PST by boxerblues
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To: dawn53; All

“IMHO, if I were going to place a strategic vote for a Democrat, I’d be voting for HRC in order to keep her in the race and force a showdown at the convention.”

RIGHT ON!! We want the DemonRats to have a blood bath. The worst possible outcome is for Obama to blow the Witch out, unify the party, and build unstoppable momentum for the fall election. Thus, Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania Freepers must swallow thier legitimate loathing for the Witch and vote for her to REALLY HURT the DemonRats.


16 posted on 02/26/2008 5:15:07 AM PST by libstripper
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To: McGruff
Everyone...to the voting place on election day!

17 posted on 02/26/2008 5:16:18 AM PST by Wolverine (A Concerned Citizen)
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To: urtax$@work

She was spot on about the VRWC.


18 posted on 02/26/2008 5:16:48 AM PST by listenhillary (They should have hung the first person that said "there ought to be a law...")
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To: boxerblues

Wake up Texas, a vote for Obaaaama is pointless. This democrat train wreck needs to keep moving on right up to their convention....


19 posted on 02/26/2008 5:17:07 AM PST by The Forgotten Man (He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always pays....)
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To: urtax$@work

Here is a Hillary quote, to be used against her:

“We’ve seen the tragic result of having a president who had neither the experience nor the wisdom to manage our foreign policy and safeguard our national security,” Mrs. Clinton said in a speech on foreign policy at George Washington University. “We can’t let that happen again.”

Hillary’s experience is vested in lies and deception, NOT in managing foreign policy! And as for “wisdom”...if I have to argue this point, all is lost.


20 posted on 02/26/2008 5:17:24 AM PST by G Larry (HILLARY CARE = DYING IN LINE!)
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