Posted by
Andrews on Thursday, July 03, 2008 7:12:10 PM
I was checking out Democrat sites claiming that all the press is lying, that no Clinton supporters are going over to McCain, and that the whole thing is an RNC trick. Now, I admit I am not tapped in to the upper echelons of the RNC, but you would think if they were going to create phony Clinton cross-over votes, they would publicize it a bit better. Instead, I had to go to relatively obscure Democrat sites to hear about it.
From that, it seems to me that
posts like this are sincere:
Wendy,
No, the real Hillary supporters realize that she was pushed out of
this race and that it is unprecedented. In the past, many candidates
who had far less pledged delegates than Hillary (to include Kennedy)
took it to the convention. Not this time, the DNC and party elites
literally threw her out of the race by giving Barack delegates he
didn’t earn, taking earned delegates from her and giving them to
Barack, and strong-arming superdelegates to back Barack in droves.
You may think all this is OK, but historically, this kind of abuse
of power, left unchecked, has led to the worst dictatorships. You can
justify supporting Barack because Hillary has been forced to tell you
to, but I refuse to support anyone who is chosen by illegitimate means.
This is not about Barack or Hillary, it’s about the party usurping the
rights and the will of voters. That doesn’t fly in my book.
by
antifish
June 30, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Now, assuming this isn't the worst planned and executed RNC trick, and that Obama's own polling numbers are correct, then he is seeing, even at this early stage, a loss of about 15% of his own party to the Republicans.
So, I have to ask yet again, how is the press predicting a cakewalk for this empty suit? He can't even hold his own party, and if we wants the middle he has to make such a drastic about face on the war and drilling that he will lose the rest of his nutroots... sorry, netroots support.
I was once worried a little bit that maybe the press was on to something I was simply not looking at the right polls, but when Obama's own pollsters say he lost 15% of Democrats and is neck and neck among independents, before he has ever faced a single tough question or any serious opposition, I have to say Obama may become the Mondale for the new millenium. At the very least the next Dukakis.
NOTE: The grammar nit picker in me has to note that it is "fewer" not "less" when speaking of something like delegates that can be enumerated.