If they did, they were stupid for doing so.
I know many who did.
Yes...
If they did they are fools! Fools. She has they organization. To win in apathetic America today you just need to fire up your base. The rest will come along.
Yes, of course. Exactly as democrat crossovers gave us McCain.
That was the silly plan.
Yes it is still not time to drop the house and take the ruby slippers.
This Ohio Republican refused to participate. First time I missed a vote in 22 years.
Yes. Isn’t it a great master plan? Isn’t Rush a freakin’ genius.
hooray
yippee
yay
I am just so excited...
another 8 years of the evil, corrupt Clintons.
What the hell were Republicans thinking? WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?
Just from personal observations, a LOT of Republicans I know crossed over, despite my warnings. I would guess that most Republicans that I know crossed over. Our county is strongly Republican, yet the democrat primary ballot was a 2 to 1 margin over Republican.
Thanks Rush. Thanks a lot.
Welcome to FR.
I’m a Republican in Texas who voted for the black candidate, Alan Keyes.
So I didn’t vote for McCain or Huckabee so I guess my vote didn’t “count” in your model.
Our local conservative radio guy just ran an audio clip of Karl Rove speaking last night: “Based on Rasmussen and other polls... Twice as many Democrats are defecting (crossing over and voting Republican) and voting for McCain in tonight’s election than Republicans voting for Hillary or Obama.”
Dick Morris was encouraging people to cross over to vote for Obama. He was saying the Clintons are so corrupt and immoral they are too dangerous to have such power.
Rush said it was good to cross over to vote for Hillary because anything that keeps them disorganized and fighting is good. He said don’t believe the MSM, his sources say that the Dems are in a civil war and terribly upset.
Rove last night said that it could be good, it could be bad. It’s good because yes, the Dems cannot focus their effort, and are disorganized and fighting. But it also keeps them on the front page while McCain goes to page 3.
There you have it - three intelligent, experienced pundits with three totally different takes. It’ll be interesting to see whose right.
My guess is if Obama’s not on the ticket, the Dem blacks, who have been programmed to view themselves as victims of racism, will be furious at the Dem party - that could fracture the party. So I guess I’ll go with Rush. Of course, there may be a Clinton Obama ticket.
I hope so. Let Hillary and Obama flail away at each other for a while longer.
I seriously doubt that any campaign by Rush netted Hillary 90,000 votes in either race. For what it is worth, exit polls showed most of the crossover vote went to Obama.
The total of Obama and Clinton votes in Ohio yesterday were approximately 2,150,000.
There's one major red state that will be going blue in November, and with it, a probable electoral college lock for the Democrat.
Yes, I expect so. I confess I would not know if it was a good idea or not. But I think it happened.
1. The Republican race was already decided, no competition left against McCain, so a vote on that line would only have been symbolic.
2. Some may have voted against Obama because they don’t want a black president. This could include some Hispanic Republicans.
3. Some may have voted for hillary to keep the race alive.
4. Some may have voted for hillary as the lesser of two evils.
I’m not sure if I agree with any of these reasons. Keeping the race alive probably won’t make that much difference. And I am completely unsure which of those two is worse. They are both unbelievably bad. I personally think Obama is worse, but his machine may not be as powerful as hers, so that evens it out.
I don’t know about Ohio, but in Texas exit polls showed that Republicans who voted Democrat went roughly 52-48 for Hillary, and represented 9% of the votes cast. In that instance I would say that they MAY have made a difference.
Given the size of Hillary’s win in Ohio, I doubt that the Republicans handed her the win.
>>Did Republican crossovers keep Hillary alive?<<
That was the goal.