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Both Democrats Are Looking Like Damaged Goods
WSJ ^ | April 23, 2008 | LAURA MECKLER and T.W. FARNAM

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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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; democratparty; democrats; elections; obama; obomber; shadowparty
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To: Miss Didi

Kentucky has more people than Puerto Rico, and has 8 electoral votes compared to Puerto Rico’s zero, but the Democrats assign 55 delegates to Puerto Rico and only 51 to Kentucky? Kentucky generally goes Republican in the Presidential races but voted for Carter in 1976 and for Clinton in 1992 and 1996.


41 posted on 04/23/2008 8:37:21 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: 14erClimb
"You owe me a new keyboard!!"

**grin**

42 posted on 04/23/2008 8:40:19 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: fweingart
"On the other hand, something hopeful might happen at the Republicrat Convention."

You're too hopeful. No brokered convention is gonna happen. We're stuck with McCain, thanks to Dem crossovers and Independents sticking him down our throats. We just have to make the best of it and try working together for the most conservative congress we can.

43 posted on 04/23/2008 8:48:57 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
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44 posted on 04/23/2008 8:51:47 AM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: MrB
"(#000000 MUST be racist in and of itself because it demeans the color with such a low number)"

I disagree. 0 is a very important number. Except that #000000 will look a LOT like our paychecks at the end of the period if Obama or Hillary get elected.

45 posted on 04/23/2008 8:53:48 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: MrB

I remember that. There were young women dressing provocatively on purpose so they could wander around campus, charging any man who looked at them with sexual harassment.


46 posted on 04/23/2008 8:57:36 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: cake_crumb
We just have to make the best of it and try working together for the most conservative congress we can.

Exactly !!!!!

47 posted on 04/23/2008 9:00:34 AM PDT by Dustbunny (Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. The Gipper)
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To: MrB
Solvent Black 3 molecular formula: C29H24N6

#000000 is SO much easier to type.

48 posted on 04/23/2008 9:08:21 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: MrB

I refer to Barry as the Magic Negroe. He and his friends are the race baters. I’ll just live up to their expectations. So F’em.


49 posted on 04/23/2008 9:09:32 AM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Beagle8U

Not as nice as Barack Hussein though.


50 posted on 04/23/2008 9:10:26 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: MrB
he’s #000000

You can lower your carbon footprint by conserving pixels, e.g.: "#000".

51 posted on 04/23/2008 9:12:03 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: cake_crumb
Looks like the pot calling the calling the kettle #000000

Actually, he's closer to #B68356.

52 posted on 04/23/2008 9:14:46 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Ah, contraire!

On a white screen, you can reduce your carbon footprint by including as much #000000 as you can, with those pixels being taken up by that color not actually requiring to be “lit up”.


53 posted on 04/23/2008 9:15:25 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Jeff Chandler
#B68356

54 posted on 04/23/2008 9:18:45 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: MrB
On a white screen, you can reduce your carbon footprint by including as much #000000 as you can, with those pixels being taken up by that color not actually requiring to be “lit up”.

You're right. Unless, of course, you print it out.

55 posted on 04/23/2008 9:20:28 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (It takes a father to raise a child.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

OK, NOW you’re getting silly...
as if this entire thread isn’t.


56 posted on 04/23/2008 9:22:39 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Hildy
"Remember not too long ago how conservative Republicans whined how they’d stay home if McCain was nominated?"

A small minority said that, but they said it loudly and constantly, only making it appear that the majority of Republicans are that brain dead.

57 posted on 04/23/2008 9:25:01 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: Cobra64
"I refer to Barry as the Magic Negroe."

Hmmm....call him the Magic Number [000000]. Everbody will nod sagely because they won't know what you're talking about...therefore what they understand will be whatever they believe.

58 posted on 04/23/2008 9:27:37 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
"Actually, he's closer to #B68356."

B6 in hex? How about #FFCC00?

59 posted on 04/23/2008 9:33:12 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Too dark


60 posted on 04/23/2008 9:46:38 AM PDT by cake_crumb (Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
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