Posted on 04/23/2008 6:37:49 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Exit Polls Show Many Party Voters Could Back McCain
The long, bitter contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seems to be taking a toll on the enthusiasm that once permeated the Democratic electorate.
Exit polls of Pennsylvania Democrats Tuesday found that roughly one in three voters had serious concerns about at least one of the presidential contenders.
SIGNS OF TROUBLE
• Worry for Democrats: Exit polling in Pennsylvania reveals deep splits that could hurt the party's chances in November. • Going Negative: Many voters thought both candidates unfairly attacked one another. • Time to Heal? The fall election is more than six months away, giving Democrats a chance to unify behind their nominee.A quarter of voters said they would be dissatisfied if Sen. Clinton were the nominee; an even greater number said they would be dissatisfied if it is Sen. Obama, according to results from the exit poll conducted for the National Election Pool.
Perhaps even more worrying for the Democrats: One in four Clinton supporters said they would vote for Sen. John McCain if Sen. Obama is the Democratic nominee. Sixteen percent of Obama backers said they would choose Sen. McCain over Sen. Clinton.
To be sure, the poll of 2,270 voters, taken at 40 polling places across the state, was conducted after six weeks of attacks and counterattacks aimed from one Democrat at the other. The fall election is still more than six months away, giving Democrats time to unify behind their eventual nominee.
Still, Tuesday's polling included some troublesome findings for Democrats.
About one-third of voters said Sen. Clinton isn't in touch with "people like you." About the same number said Sen. Obama isn't.
More than four in 10 voters said Sen. Clinton isn't honest and trustworthy.
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Captain Obvious.
We’ve known this from the get-go.
McCain is a moderate, but he is still better BY FAR than what we would get with Hildabeast or Hussein. I don’t buy for a moment the notion that we need to suffer 4 or 8 years of those two to get a true conservative in the White House.
I think many of these blue collar people tht Obama has offended might vote McVain in the fall.
But wait just yesterday I was reading articles about how all of the republicans in the state, many of them life long republicans, were registering as dems becasue they have had it with the GOP. In one story apparantly Dean was even stroking himself over what a good job he was doing attracting GOP voters to switch. Now its seems that over 1/3 of dems will vote for McCain, why, how can that possibly be? Hahahahahaha
Judging by what I’ve read here, it looks like all the candidates are somewhat damaged.
No question about it. Hillary’s people won’t vote for Obama and Obama’s people will riot.
Throw another stick into the fire. Ask Hillary how she feels about the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party and demand a complete answer.
Yup. That’s what my wife keeps saying. We might see some rioting if Obama doesn’t get the nod from the Democrats.
So far, it seems that Mr. McCain is the luckiest presidential candidate in years and years.
Bitter? Bitter!? We accept as axiom that Hillary is bitter...but didn't Obama accuse US of being bitter? Looks like the pot calling the calling the kettle #000000 (to avoid the usual charges of racism from the Obama camp)
These two represent the lowest common denominator of weasel who holes up in America. They are the bottom feeding carp in America's pond.
They aren't the bottom of the barrel, they're whatever lives under the barrel.
They're the CPUSA's dream and the hope of the evil islamist killers.
Elect them and America tanks quickly.
On the other hand, something hopeful might happen at the Republicrat Convention.
McCain needs to leave these two alone and get back to Washington and get back to work, and appear like the leader he is. IS ANYONE IN HIS CAMPAIGN OUT THERE READING THIS!!!!
The dems have two light weights, who are not capable of carrying his shoes...
It would take the likes of McCain to turn PA into the red state it really should be. The shame....
BUMP
good-I’d hire a couple of Korean grocers to handle the crowd-they had it figured out in south central LA.
You owe me a new keyboard!!
Nope, no bias here. None at all.
Buyer’s remorse.
Perhaps if they had spent more focus on vetting themselves a candidate instead of saddling the GOP with John McCain’s election, they wouldn’t be in this boat.
“More than four in 10 voters said Sen. Clinton isn’t honest and trustworthy.”
What? Only four out of 10? If they were paying attention out there, it would be 10 out of 10.
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