Remember Kucinich's Impeachement vote?

[OzarkDem]

When he introduced his Resolution in the House that Cheney be impeached? Recall as the vote went on and the resolution began to pick up support, a funny thing happened.

Suddenly the GOP began voting with Kucinich until there was a large majority in favor of opening it up for debate. The GOP spin was that they wanted to "humiliate" Dems by letting it come to the floor for debate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJYbgouqlMw

Is it possible the GOP is using the same tactic in the primaries - with large numbers of GOP'ers and I's switching to vote for Obama with the intention of forcing Dems to nominate a candidate who then becomes a media bullseye and can't win in the GE?

[Mojorabbit]

1. I don't think so

I really think they were hoping to run against Hillary. I think this Obama surge blindsided them.

[OzarkDem]

5. The strategy can be used against either one

and if she starts pulling ahead, I expect them to switch the tactic to her favor.

Those are the only two Dems they would apply it to, IMHO.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. It's my biggest fear that this is exactly what happened in IOWA!

That's why I'm so weary of this groundswell, this movement, for Sen. Obama.

[OzarkDem]

6. When I saw news of large demand for Dem ballots in NH

it confirmed my suspicions.

I've seen the GOP pull these stunts at the local level, usually in judicial races, where its easy to influence a primary vote. When I was a City Leader for the Dem party I was surprised to find quite a few Republics I knew listed as Dems in the poll books. Upon checking further I found they had switched to D so they could vote against someone in the Dem primary. Its a very common tactic.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. Is that 'weary' or 'wary'?

Hard to tell from the context.

[TheDebbieDee]

13. I spelled it wrong............I meant "wary" as in full of suspicion.

Although I was "tired" when I posted that comment.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. That's giving them a lot of respect. It's more like a cabbage patch kids

thing.

[sniffa]

4. No

[Cleita]

7. If Republicans are allowed a vote in the primaries of opposition

parties, which seems to be what happened in Iowa, you could be right. I mean if you could vote in the Republican primaries, wouldn't you vote for the candidate you believe your candidate could beat?

Don't worry. This election will be decided on February 5th, not the small states with early selection this time.

[rucky]

8. No.

They can coordinate like that in the House, but not among the numbers we're seeing in the primary states.

[OzarkDem]

9. It doesn't take a whole lot

and there's already been a great deal of discussion among the freeps about it. I've had several mention it to me on mixed fora.

[Desertrose]

11. I wouldn't be at all surprised to be honest.

The whole voting process has been so corrupted and the media has WAY too much input.

I don't believe ANYTHING they tell us.

As I commented elsewhere...the media* doesn't follow stories...it MAKES them...WE are the ones who follow.



* This is the same media that is owned by big big money interests, remember?

[OzarkDem]

12. They've done it before

combined with the big media push, its very possible. I put nothing past them, they're very well organized.

[L. Coyote]

14. NO DOUBT this is going on in the background, with unknown success and

perhaps even false underlying assumptions, like US voters will not elect a muslim of color. The likeliest practical consideration is who is easiest to defeat in the Fall by whom. Their past record is whatever tactic works, so expect these aspects of an Obama candidacy to be used and abused.

Considering the influence Iowa and NH have, both the degree of ease Rs have in crossing the line and access by independents has a lot of weight early in the selection process. This is happening even if there is no organized campaign to skew.

[B Calm]

15. I worked with a republican who always voted for the democratic candidate who

he thought the republicans could beat in the general election. Of course they're voting for Obama!