Posted on 02/28/2008 8:21:07 PM PST by LouAvul
One of Sen. Barack Obama’s surest applause lines comes about halfway into his standard stump speech. It goes like this:
“They whisper to me. They say, ‘Barack, I’m a Republican, but I support you.’ And I say, ‘Thank you. Why are we whispering?’”
If the latest polling data are to be believed, those Republicans aren’t whispering in Texas, where 195 of the 228 delegates the state will send to the Democratic National Convention will be chosen in a primary and caucuses Tuesday.
As many as a tenth of the Texans voting in the Democratic contests could be Republicans, and overwhelmingly they favor Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, the polls show.
“I ran for Republican precinct chair. I went to the Republican state convention,” said one of them, Donald Rau of Austin, who has already voted in early balloting. “In this election, I voted for Barack Obama.”
GOP support ‘no longer surprising’ A poll released this week by SurveyUSA of Verona, N.J., indicated that registered Republicans would make up 9 percent of Democratic primary voters next week. Michael Baselice, head of Baselice and Associates, a Texas polling firm, said that was in line with what his company was finding.
A bloc that large could make a significant difference for Obama, who holds a large lead over Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York among Texas Republicans, especially in a close race. Polls this week were showing a dead heat in Texas as Obama began pulling even with Clinton.
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Besides voter registration is public info and I couldn't hack being identified as a rat.
yep, I'm looking at the line that says...."Voted in the ________________primary." Mine is blank.....
as far as caring what party the public thinks I'm in..... My friend, I haven't cared what anybody thinks of me in such a long time it's laughable. If I get to stick it to a Clinton, I'd go with the American Communist Party and put a sign on my front lawn.......... I'd urinate on the sign, but I'd still put it up there if I could somehow vote and screw a Clinton.
That doesn't matter. The same rules apply. You get a new voter ID card every two years that is not stamped with party affiliation until you vote in a party primary. If he has a voter ID already stamped, it is from a previous election cycle. When I worked as an election clerk, that ID would be valid for getting a ballot assuming of course that this person matched the age printed on the card and on the voting roll.
Yes, I got a new card in the mail recently too - what I’m referring to is requesting an absentee ballot - it is mailed to you so you have to state if you want the republican ballot or the dem one don’t you? They are different ballots.
But the thought of being labeled as a dem just disgusts me.
Funny, I heard FOX News this morning say that Republicans were crossing over and voting for hitlery.
Hey, let's be as stupid as the Dems!! That is the logic of a double digit IQ and is not why we were given the right of voting by the founding fathers of this nation.
Voting is for adults, but they seem to be increasingly in the minority.
This is the what happens when you screw with the system. I’m with you. A primary is for the PARTY to pick their candidate. What was the thinking behind an OPEN PRIMARY? Stupid..stupid..stupid.
Know, it’s not more fun to run against Hillary. It’s MUCH more fun to see her lose now...LOSE TO OBAMA..it’s fabulous and I’m enjoying every single minute of it.
“Free Republic was created to expose Bill and Hillary Clinton and their White Water connections. Hillary Clinton must NEVER be allowed to become President!
So, why would this tactic be difficult to understand?”
Wow, could you have rung that bell any clearer? Agree wholeheartedly!
Take her out(politically) and end all doubt!
Obama will be much easier for McCain(yechh!) to beat than Hillary in the general. And Hillary’s corrupt political mafia can never again be allowed to come to power. NEVER!!!!
It ain't November!
Is that directed at me? Because if it is I had nothing to do with McCain being the Republican nominee. I voted for Fred Thompson even though he had dropped out by the time my primaries rolled around.
Obama is an idiot.
True, same can be said for 99% of the democratic party, and an increasing number of those in the Republican Party too. I personally think Hillary would be easier to beat than Obama, especially if she wins by just enough to keep her in the race for the Democratic nomination until the convention and then let the super deelgates select her. Blacks will stay home for many elections to come.
Just my opinion.
I agree about the article. But I have serious doubts about the implication that crossover Republicans are split between Obama and Hillary.
I just got back from early voting. I saw a great many locals (we're in a small town) who I know are Republicans taking Demo ballots. I couldn't query them at the polling place, of course. But, prior to voting, I'd compared notes with quite a few. They were reasoning as I did, and voting for Obama in the primary.
In Texas, there's nothing to change or nothing to affect, if one votes in the Republican presidential primary. But, if a Republican votes Obama in the Demo primary, as a good many of my friends and I are doing, then it drives the stake into Hillary's campaign just a little deeper with each vote.
We live in a very Republican County and the area where we live is overwhelmingly Republican. I have to assume some were voting Dem just for this primary as well.
I couldn't do it - I got to vote on several referendums we hope to get passed, as well as vote for our Representative, hoping to get rid of the idiot dem who took Tom Delay's seat. We also have a Sheriff's race that is important.
On top of all of that, I got to vote for Fred Thompson. I won't vote for McCain until I have to.
That's fair and sensible. No problemo. I'd have done the same. Down here in Ellis County, there's just not much of a race, or referendums, or anything important in the nominating side of things. So, if I could lob a teensie firecracker at Hillary, I took the opportunity to do so.
And, there was additional fun -- I got to cast a ballot on the Dem races that were contested at the State level, chosing in each case the name of the person most likely to go down to defeat based solely on the wierdo factor relating to their names.
But, still, to the degree that those voting for the reasons I did have any influence, that influence is contra-hillary. She needs help losing. Obama won't need any help losing. In him, the Dems are facing another McGovern Moment, mostly because those in charge don't have a clue who McGovern was and why he went down in flames.
I just have a really bad feeling about obama
I’m in the minority on this, but I would rather have Hillary Clinton as president than Obama. I will be voting for McCain, but if he loses, I would rather it be to her. She is everything people say about her, but Obama scares me far more. The country survived the Clintons once, and it would again. I shudder to imagine Obama at the helm with his inexperience, his lack of intellect, his lack of leadership, etc. I think it would be much worse than the Carter administration.
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