Many Voting for Clinton to Boost GOP

[gmudem]

By Scott Helman
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/17/7729/

Since Senator John McCain effectively sewed up the GOP nomination last month, Republicans have begun participating in Democratic primaries specifically to vote for Clinton, a tactic that some voters and local Republican activists think will help their party in November. With every delegate important in the tight Democratic race, this trend could help shape the outcome if it continues in the remaining Democratic primaries open to all voters.

Spurred by conservative talk radio, GOP voters who say they would never back Clinton in a general election are voting for her now for strategic reasons: Some want to prolong her bitter nomination battle with Barack Obama, others believe she would be easier to beat than Obama in the fall, or they simply want to register objections to Obama.

Some political blogs have suggested that the influx of Clinton-voting Republicans prevented Obama from winning delegates he otherwise would have, by inflating Clinton’s totals both statewide and in certain congressional districts. A writer for the liberal blog Daily Kos estimated that Obama could have netted an additional five delegates from Mississippi.

It is also possible, though perhaps unlikely, that enough strategically minded Republicans voted for Clinton in Texas to give her a crucial primary victory there: Clinton received roughly 119,000 GOP votes in Texas, according to exit polls, and she beat Obama by about 101,000 votes.

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So this seems to confirm that Clinton has Republicans to thank for her victory in Texas. And just to preempt any whining by Clintonites, Republicans who have voted for Obama are voting for him because they actually like him, meanwhile Republicans never voted for Clinton until Rush ordered them to. It is time for Hillary to GTFO of this primary.

[MNDemNY]

1. Please repost this every hour.

[tritsofme]

2. War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

Republicans who vote for Obama = Good
Republicans who vote for Hillary = Bad.

It only makes sense in fairy tales, or Obamaland.

[gmudem]

3. Read the article, consider the evidence

I know that might be asking a lot of you, but ask yourself this question: were any Republicans voting for Clinton before the GOP race was locked up for McCain, and were any Republicans voting for Clinton before Rush Limbaugh ordered them too?

So read the article, consider the evidence. There is no evidence of any Republican plan to screw up our primary by voting for Obama, OTOH conservatives are downright bragging about how they have screwed up our primary by getting their mindless drones in Texas and Ohio to go out and vote for Clinton.

[tritsofme]

4. Many Republicans also went on a "end the Clintons once and for all"

binge earlier in the year.

With open primaries there is really no way to tell.

However it is just absurd to assert that your Republicans are better than our Republicans.

[gmudem]

8. So in that case?

What states has Obama won directly as a result of Republicans voting for him? Because Clinton won Texas thanks to Republicans, and if Rush hadn't helped her out she would have had to drop out of the race most likely.

[OHdem10]

5. And you believe that all those Republicans who voted for

Obama were not doing the same thing. Sure a few mau stick with
him, but many voted Obama strategically to stop Hillary, now
does it surprise you they are doing likewise. There are some
who explained their vote for Hillary this way. "I thought
McCain would be ok without my vote so I decided to vote
in the Democratic Primary. Just in case the GOP loses, and we
are faced with a Democratic President. I voted for Hillary
because I think she would be a better President."

Sure some vote for both candidates strategically.

[suston96]

6. Basic demographics....52% of 300 million population are women.....12.9% of 300 million are blacks.

Now which demographic do you think the Repubbas are more wary of?

[gmudem]

7. Judging by Rush Limbaugh

They are more scared of Barack Obama than any demographic numbers you want to throw out.