McCain aide, of Clinton supporters: "if we get them we win, if we don't we lose."

[flpoljunkie]

"If we get them we win; if we don't we lose," says a top McCain aide of the Clinton supporters.

http://www.slate.com/id/2197501/

Obama aides say that Clinton's speech will bring along her voters. Yes, they want her to say that Barack Obama is great and that John McCain would continue George Bush's policies. But what they really want is for her to tell her voters to come on board. She's made this pitch before, but at the convention she has heavy symbolism in her favor. The most symbolic act she may make is to step in during the roll-call vote to ask that Obama be named the nominee by acclamation.

Will this work? It will almost certainly work in the hall. The Democrats in Denver are ready to cheer. But what about in the rest of the country? The Clinton supporters I've been talking to are a stubborn lot. They don't find her as persuasive as they once did because they think she's supporting Obama only to keep her political future alive.

[PresidentObama]

1. I'd say probably 85% of Clinton supporters back Obama, or are leaning Obama.

[anonymous171]

2. Air his Chelsea Clinton joke.

[PresidentObama]

4. Or the question he laughed at and answered during the primary: "How do we beat the bitch?"

Remember that bullshit?

Someone asked that and he laughed, and ANSWERED the question.

[polichick]

3. Sorry McC***, you only get the stupid ones!

[Spazito]

5. LOL, seeing as those they are "courting" are already repubs from Operation Chaos...

they got NOTHING!

[LostinVA]

6. How about a nice UNITY thread?

[elocs]

7. Why any Clinton supporter would even consider voting for McCain

is the most stupid and insane thing I can think of. It makes absolutely no sense at all. None.