Which GE DEM Nominee Gets the Most PUG Crossover Votes?

[NI4NI]

Poll question: Which GE DEM Nominee Gets the Most PUG Crossover Votes?

And, please reply WHY, if you're inclined. Thanks!

[Lucinda]

1. I couldn't really say, until we know who the Rep nom is...

[ElizabethDC]

2. Yep, that's a really good point.

And I really like your holiday-inspired sig line. It's very festive!

[hayu_lol]

3. In line with your parameters...

I chose Gravel. This is a primary vote and he would do the least harm to the Repugnant cause.

[Lucinda]

15. :) Thanks! I was looking for antler ears....but I couldn't find workable ones

so I settled on santa hats. :D

[waiting for hope]

4. Edwards -

and no flames here, he'll pull more of the Southern vote.

[skipos]

5. Especially if Huckabee is nominated, Biden would get the most

Huckabee would get the pro-rapist, pro-criminal, pro-fiscal irresponsilibity, anti-choice, Jesus-rode-a-dinosaur voters and the "I would vote for Hitler (R) over Anyone Else (D)" voters, and Biden would do the best job of appealing to everyone else.

[LWolf]

6. None of them get enough to make a difference.

Why would they vote repub-lite when they can vote for the real thing?

:shrug:

[Carrieyazel]

7. Richardson would, of course. A Western governor, takes a few stands that have crossover appeal.

This one's easy. Repugs don't vote for those THEY perceive as liberal Democratic Senators. So that takes out Obama, Clinton, Dodd and Edwards right there.

[Bullet1987]

8. Obama by far...

I have yet to see or hear Conservatives say they'd vote for Clinton or Richardson or Edwards. New Hampshire is the perfect example of this in how if Obama wins Iowa...odds are the majority of Independents go for him. Anybody else, and they're voting rethug. Obama has TREMENDOUS crossover appeal.

[Carrieyazel]

10. As much as we'd like to think so, most of our Senators have little crossover appeal

Especially in this polarizing climate. Obama's never ran in an election where he had to have crossover appeal, so the evidence just isn't there. A lot of these Independents voted for Shrub; can't see them going to Obama.

[jenmito]

12. Obama has lots of crossover appeal.

There have been polls stating so as well as my real-life experience with Repubs.

[Andy823]

13. You didn't watch

The republican debates then, did you? There was republican in a group of "undecided" that said not one of the repbublicans had changed her mind, and she said that right now she was seriously thinking of voting for Edwards! I have heard it said on other sites by repbublicans also. But I have not heard one republican say they would vote for Hillary, or Obama.

[jenmito]

14. You didn't read

this: "Aug. 24, 2007 | WASHINGTON -- It was sort of like finding a Christmas tree in a cornfield. In late July and early August, Iowa Republican voters were asked to name their choice for president in a University of Iowa poll. Mitt Romney, who leads most Iowa surveys, got 22 percent of the total. Rudy Giuliani came in second with 10 percent. But third place went to a Democrat, Barack Obama, who got nearly 7 percent -- more than Mike Huckabee, John McCain and Sam Brownback combined.

Not to worry: The Obama campaign isn't likely to join the Grand Old Party, and pollsters are convinced that Obama has exactly zero chance of winning the Republican caucus in Iowa. But something is going on. "I don't want to make too much of it," says David Redlawsk, the professor who commissioned the poll. "But I do think that the message Obama is putting out right now is the most likely to reach across party lines."

There are other signs of Obama's crossover appeal. Over the last several months, Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster, has been holding focus groups for various media organizations like Fox News to find out what the public thinks of the presidential candidates. "I would ask Republicans, 'Which Democratic candidate would you accept? Who would you consider to vote for?'" Luntz says. "Obama would get more than everybody else combined. Hillary and Edwards have no crossover voters."


http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/24/obama_gop/

[MadBadger]

16. Ive heard them say it on C-Span

Every time Obama appears at a campaign event on C-Span, there is always at least 2-3 rep caller who says they have switched and are voting for Obama

[gateley]

9. Biden, regardless of who the R nom is. When people hear him up against anyone

they have to offer, his sense, experience and obvious grasp of reality will be embarrassing to the R nom.

[jenmito]

11. Obama. I've heard several Repubs. say they like Obama because he really seems like he

wants to unify the country. (Even though he's the most liberal of the main candidates, he disagrees without being disagreeable. People like that.)