Posted on 05/31/2008 10:21:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With senator Barack Obama poised this week to clinch his party's nomination for President, there are growing fears in some quarters that the Democratic party may not be choosing its strongest candidate to beat Republican John McCain.
Senator Hillary Clinton has been making that argument for weeks. Now some recent polls and analysis, looking particularly at vital battleground states and support among white voters, have bolstered her case - even as Obama looks certain to become the nominee.
Obama supporters reject this argument and point to his record of boosting Democratic voter turnout, especially among the young. But sceptics in the party, already nervous about nominating Obama after the furore over outspoken pastor Jeremiah Wright, are growing increasingly concerned. 'There is an element of buyer's remorse in some areas. The question is whether it gets really strong now or in September - or even after the election is over, if he loses,' said Steve Mitchell, head of political consultancy Mitchell Research.
Another boost to Clinton's case came late last week after a pro-Obama preacher gave a race-tinged rant against her at Obama's church in Chicago. In a recent sermon Michael Pfleger - a long-term Obama backer who is white - mocked Clinton as an entitled white person angry at a black man having beaten her. His angry, red-faced speech, in which he mimicked Clinton weeping, was played repeatedly across American cable channels and the internet.
The news sent shock waves through Democratic circles; many had hoped Obama had put 'pastor problems' behind him. 'It is more of the same problem as Wright. It reinforces the image among some voters that Obama does not share their values,' said Mitchell.
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I wonder at times if those preachers are really Obama supporters. The timing of their comments seems suspect to me!
I live and work in an intensely liberal environment and they still don't SEE the problem. They are working very, very hard to make this about racial tension and discrimination by the white voter. They have been so goaded by the guilt patrols that they don't understand the highly intellectual moral values they expound are the rantings of heretics and pharisees.
Farrakhan for VP With HBO ticket....
Hence they will work with both of these candidates to create the Hillary-Obama ticket. Hillary will be forced to take Obama as a Veep. That keeps them both in the public eye for the election.
My wifes whole family is blue collar Dems. Never voted for a Republican in their lives. They say theyre voting McCain this time. I know they arent alone
So they vote for McCain, is he really not a Democrat with an R after his name? Some choice we have this go round.
Bump
John McCain needs to get ahold of that video for a political ad and play it night & day in EVERY swing state from now until November!
They will burn if McCain wins. Some people like to riot.Qualifications?
Riot, murder, arson, and riot.
You said riot twice.
I like riot.
While I don’t want to see all these urban areas burn, I would dearly love to see a serious dilution of their power and influence. In essence to show America and the rest of the world the constituency from which these areas is based. They are the source of all the power grabbing, controlism, and corruption of the highest order. I honestly don’t see the value in them.
Even his mom was a looking down, and being with the ‘third world’ types. Ditto his commie grandparents.
Basically, he's a lefty house negro.
He just dumped his field negro church for the approval of whites.
Even then she could run as a third party candidate. She would lay waste to the entire DemocRAT establishment if she though she could win.
Yes, because she was wobbling and about to get knocked out, at which point the fight is over.
In order for the fight to continue, Rush tried to prop her up so she can stay in the ring a few more rounds. Rush would have done the same thing for Obama had Hillary been ahead and Obama wobbling.
The longer this fight continues, the more money both sides spend against each other, the more bitter the supporters on both sids become about the process, the harder it becomes for the eventual winner to take on McCain in Nov.
I’m from north central P.A. and I have never voted for a dem.
Obama is just not going toplay well there.
Keep hope alive!
Frank Lautenberg in blackface?
That's what I've been saying. Give him twenty years to develop some wisdom and maturity, and maybe then he'll be ready for prime time. Or not. If he continues to associate with the likes of William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Michael Pfleger and Louis Farakkhan, twenty years will only make him older and more bitter.
Since the current primary-dominated era of presidential nominations began in 1972, more primary votes have been cast in the Democratic than the Republican contests in all but two elections, 1996 and 2000. Part of this is due to the lingering Democratic advantage in party registration in much of the country, as well as the Democrats' penchant for high gusto nominating contests.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/article.php?id=FRC2008011701
You seem to believe the polling and obvious hype of the media, a media firmly in the pocket of Hussein. The many problems with his Church, his wife’s big mouth and his really unbelievable foreign policy gaffes will destroy him in the end, McCain is wiping up the floor with Hussein from the stand point of national security.
What some here have said about their friends and neighbors, who are Democrats not voting for Hussein, may be anecdotal but it is becoming wide spread. I live in NJ, as liberal a State as you will find with only few exceptions. I also have spoken to friends who feel the same way. They are not McCaniacs by any means but they do not care for or trust Hussein. While not many have come right out and said they would vote for McCain, the fact they haven’t said they would vote for Hussein and express such doubts about his lack of experience and the outrageous rhetoric he is now associated with, makes me believe many of these people will NOT vote for the lib even if it means they stay home.
There is so much material the Rep can use against Hussein, his own words and those of Clinton, that he will spend all of his time on defense in the general. In contrast, McCain is a known entity and there is nothing much to be revealed about him unless the libs are holding something from 30 years ago that was never known, which I doubt.
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