Exit Poll Data: 20% Of "Conservatives" Voted For Obama (What "Unity" Really Means Alert)

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 11/5/2008 | Rush Limbaugh

[goldstategop]

Unifying the GOP in the sense of reaching across the aisle to the other side didn't win it the moderates and independents. In fact, a sizable number of conservatives abandoned McCain for Obama! They felt that someone who said nothing better than anyone else in history was a better choice than someone who stood for nothing. Having no real core convictions, McCain lost. He never told us what he believed in, other than honor and vapid appeals to "bipartisanship." See where unity gets you. Its not the path to victory.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[americanophile]

I’m sorry, but 0% of conservatives voted for Obama.

[rom]

I don’t know who these so-called ‘conservatives’ are, but I hope they’re the first to lose their shirts under Obama.

[GaryLee1990]

Such BS...they didn't define conservative.

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[kimchi lover]

I know several evangelical Christian conservatives who voted for Zero.
I don’t know how they could, but they did.

[Comparative Advantage]

These must have been “David Brooks” conservatives. It’s a shame there might be that many. I wouldn’t have abstained if I couldn’t vote for McCain, but I never would have voted for Hussein.

[goldstategop]

McCain got 80% of the conservatives. No wonder he underperformed in many Red States. The rest is history.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Comparative Advantage]

Correction: I would have abstained if I couldn’t vote for McCain...

[mrsmith]

I guess Rush intended those remarks for people who believe CNN exit polls... like McCain maybe.

[wpa_mikeb]

Are these the same ‘conservatives’ that are supposedly upset with Sarah Palin?

B.S.

The inside the beltway types (like Fox’s Carl Cameron) are all over the place bashing Sarah Palin and this conservative doesn’t buy a bit of it

[Krodg]

See where unity gets you.

Yep, and the Dems are celebrating and the dummies are whining.

[Mr. Mojo]

They may fancy themselves conservatives, but they're not even close. NO conservative would vote for someone who resides (politcally) somewhere between Havana and Haight Ashbury.

[pgkdan]

I know what Rush is trying to say but it’s impossible that any conservatives voted for Obama. They either lied to the pollster or they don;t know what a conservative is.

[oldtimer]

I agree, no one with an IQ over 75 who claimed to be a Conservative would have voted for osama.

Sometimes Rush gets a little windy IMO.

[goldstategop]

They were at mad at Bush and just livid at McCain for failing to stand up for anything conservative. During the debates, I got the impression Obama was the more conservative candidate! So in retrospect, the defections weren't all that surprising. Had McCain been a conservative, he would be the President-Elect today.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[wk4bush2004]

“I’m sorry, but 0% of conservatives voted for Obama.”

I agree. A true conservative would NEVER vote for Obama. I think a lot of Americans have no clue what they voted for. I mean, the man is a proponent of and defender of abortion/infanticide, for crying out loud! How can people overlook that?????

I hope and pray Obama was just dreaming about the “Freedom of Choice Act.”

[shankbear]

The 2004 census figures show that there were 218 million adults over 18 years old. Estimates show that 127 million or so people voted in this election. What did that other 90 million adults do on election day? Watch TV? Play video games? Go to the mall? Think that their 1 vote wouldn’t matter.

Those 90 million potential voters can just STFU after this gaggle muck.

[The_Republican]

Rush is losing it.

Independents were lost because the McCain brand was tarnished.

Crazy people at the rallies, scared the heck out of America, specially the Independents. The guy who stood up and started screaming about being really mad, but not about economy, but about socialists, he is every independents’ nightmare. The crazy lady who accused Obama of being Arab, she is the reason independents were lost. The scream of terrorist, and off-with his head, and Kill him, the price for those shenanigans was high.

Governor Palin who has seen human footprints in dinosaur fossils and was seen on camera praying to be protected against witchcraft, pretty much made sure Independents were going to run for cover.

You dedicate your entire campaign to appeal to extreme elements in your base, and then you act surprise why independents didn’t vote for you.

If lurching further to the right is the answer, then I have a bridge to sell you in Alaska.

[DiogenesLaertius]

McCain pissed off conservatives in a lot of ways. His awful bailout plan. Plenty of conservatives of the taft tradition are incredibly pissed that Bush tried to nation-build. McCain never quite sold the base and he had no money to advertise either so he got owned hard.

[Azzurri]

These people are CINOs (Conservative in Name Only).