Posted on 06/02/2008 10:42:20 PM PDT by wsjreader
The woman who shouted "McCain in '08" at the Democratic rules committee was speaking for a multitude. After mounting for months, female anger over the choreographed dumping on Hillary Clinton and her supporters has exploded -- and party loyalty be damned. That the women are beginning to have a good time is an especially bad sign for Barack Obama's campaign. "Obama will NOT get my vote, and one step more," Ellen Thorp, a 59-year-old flight attendant from Houston told me. "I have been a Democrat for 38 years. As of today, I am registering as an independent. Yee Haw!" A new Pew Research Center poll points to a surging tide of fury, especially among white women. As recently as April, this group preferred Obama over the presumptive Republican John McCain by three percentage points. By May, McCain enjoyed an eight-point lead among white women. .
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People say a lot of things when they’re mad. We’ll see if they actually follow through in November. My guess is most of them will return to the Democratic fold, just like most Republicans will end up voting for McCain once they’re finished letting off steam.
It will be difficult for the rats to claim that the Republicnas stole the election this time, when it’s a 45 state blow out for McCain.
Their candidate is deeply flawed and even the democrats are starting to see it.
Ain't that the troof. I don't think alec baldwin ever did leave.
Very wise words. And accurate too.
It depends on lots of factors. If it’s a normal year, and if GOP’s support is not in the dump, this alone will easily give McCain a blowout win. However, this is not a normal year, I’m pretty sure the defection rate will be higher than past elections because of the deep animosity between Obama and Clinton supporters, but so is the defection rate by GOP base and independent voters from McCain.
Election is all number’s game. It all ends up with who can cross 50%.
But I do believe the threat of these white women is very real. Identity politics is very powerful and it makes people’s decision irrational.
I do believe the real risk here is Obama/Clinton ticket. It will be a blowout victory... I don’t believe there will be enough white male to deny rats such victory in an ‘abnormal’ election year.
I think the rift between the Hillaryites and the Obamaites is much deeper than the rift between McCain and conservatives. There will be an enormous contingent of dems voting for McCain in November. After all, he IS just another Demorcrat, and they know it.
Bambi stole the beasts thunder and her rightful Destiny. The old crones will NEVER forgive him for that.
So were kerry and Gore. Democrats are incredible stupid and are of the herd mentality.
Who should they choose then if not Kerry or Gore?
Howard Dean? Bill Bradley? That’s even worse than those two in trying to win an election.
I don't think so. These women feel burned by the anti-Clinton sentiment of the press and the DNC, which in their view is more than slightly tinged with misogyny. From what I've been reading on Democratic blogs, a lot of them feel outraged and disgusted by the party bigwigs' preference for a lesser qualifed male candidate over a female candidate with superior intelligence/credentials. They are deeply disillusioned with the party.
Don't count on it. The right has been let down by eight years of "compassionate conservatism" and the contagion of RINOism in congress.
Republicans haven't been dealt a worse electoral hand in as long as I can remember, and I can't ever remember hearing and reading as much sheer disgust and disagreement of the base with their nominee, ever in my life.
Count on millions of write-ins this November if McCain is still our nominee. McCain doesn't ignite our base - he inflames them.
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner.
There's no way in hell I would vote Dim just because my man didn't win the Republican primary. McCain is attractive to angry Dims because he's one of them.
The way he "ums" and "ahs" after every third word (I'm being generous here) tells me that what I'm about to hear is being constructed to conform with what he thinks I want as an answer.
Unless scripted, this guy can't get through a complete sentence without putting the kickstand down at least three or four times. This suggests that he has no real conviction as it would be quite normal to be able to state what you believe to be true without the hesitation.
I, uh, in good concensience, um, couldn't buy a, ah, used camel from this, uh, guy.
The ticket will almost certainly be Obama/Clinton. McCain will have to pick a woman or a Hispanic as his running mate. Any plausible hispanic women out there?
I think what you are not seeing is the McCain is so close to being a Democrat that they have no problem voting for him at all. For that reason, I think a lot of Dims, especially older females who prefer having a man in charge, will vote for him.
Myself, I can’t vote for any of the three, Clinton, Obama or McCain. I can’t live with this idea of open borders and amnesty for all.
Kerry and Dean had serious flaws as candidates too but the media did a good job of shielding for them. The dam burst on the Obama scampaign.
Write-ins for Obama? That’s who your vote for unnamed protest candidate will elect.
If it has to be a woman, I kind of like the Alaskan governor.
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