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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well..you can rewrite history if it makes you feel better! :)
Dems Lack Both Style And Substance
The Bulletin | 04/22/2008 | Michael P. Tremoglie
Posted on 04/22/2008 9:26:38 AM PDT by William Tell 2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005257/posts
Democrat System Needs Reform
boblonsberry.com | 04/22/08 | Bob Lonsberry
Posted on 04/22/2008 5:35:56 AM PDT by shortstop
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005155/posts
Keystone Lessons
National Review | April 23, 2008 | Editors
Posted on 04/23/2008 7:34:16 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2005713/posts
Well, I copied his banner photo from his website, pasted it in Fireworks, and sampled his forehead halfway between the sunlit area and the shaded area. What more could I do?
Agreed!
“McCain is a moderate, but he is still better BY FAR than what we would get with Hildabeast or Hussein”
I wouldn’t call McPain a moderate. He’s a RINO. I would vote for McPain against Hussein, but I would prefer Clinton to McPain... I think McPain would do more damage.
I can’t agree with you on that, McCain would at his worst be better than Hildabeast at her best.
For example, he it's not too late to sponsor legislation to waive federal taxes on gasoline. I'm not talking about a speech, I'm talking about ramming a bill through the Senate NOW. No senator would dare vote against it.
President Bush could also ask McCain to travel to Israel and Iraq on a diplomatic mission. sure, it's headlines and photo ops, but it's headlines and photo ops, and it gets him into a problem solving mode and as a fringe benefits, he can refute Carter's ass kissing visit with Hamas.
There are LOTS of great opportunities to burnish his presidential bona fides while the democrat candidates slug it out in the mud.
“I can’t agree with you on that, McCain would at his worst be better than Hildabeast at her best.”
Do you think for a minute that Hillary would oppose 80% of the population and grant amnesty to illegals? Not a chance... She would govern with focus groups and poles just as (they) did when (they) were in office before.
Although that’s not the way to lead, it’s better than a S.O.B. MaCain who doesn’t give a damn what we think.
Those 55 delegates are why Clinton pardoned those sixteen members of FALN in 1999. That's what I call thinking ahead.
I think you exaggerate as far as McCain not giving a damn what we think, but whatever. The illegal issue is a problem, but so is the prospect of Hildabest appointing 5 or 6 members to the Supreme Court.
It didn't work out that way the last time we had the Clintons in the White House for 8 straight years, did it?
Cute!
I assumed the pardons were to win the support of Puerto Ricans living in New York state, for Hillary’s Senate race in 2000.
Yes, but are those yahoo advisors of his thinking the same thing? He should ram that bill through the senate now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s probably more correct. Ten years is a long planning horizon.
All the more reason why it must go on through the convention in August.
At least since Billyboy drew Bob Dole in the candidate lottery.
You are correct. We have made gains on the SCOTUS and the WOT and I'm not handing it over to Hitler or the black militant.
That's a cold fact. We really should be thanking the leftwing dirtbags like MoveOn and Soros who boasted about "owning" the 'rat party after 2004 and now have proven it by promoting radical and extreme leftwing candidates. If they had just gone with a conventional moderate, as you say, picked by normal primary votes instead of this queer fiasco they invented, the coming election would be a wipe out of the GOP. Instead it looks ever so gradually more promising.
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