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Looks like this fellow was hit by Obama’s epiphany:
“… a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany … and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama” – - Barack Obama Lebanon, New Hampshire. January 7, 2008
Sounds like from some of these comments some of you have had the light shine on you. What does it feel like when it happens?
Nowhere in the Obamamania is there discussions of the right wingers helping get Obama over the top in the open primary states. That has to a a big (not only) factor is some of these wins (or at least margin of victory)
I know several friends and family members who took pleasure in voting against HRC (by voting for Obama) in the VA primary. To a person, they would not vote for a Democrat in the fall even it was Jesus Christ. At believe 10% of WI voters were GOP right wingers and most were probably voting in the Dem primary just as I described above. And before Obama supporters start screaming at me with the false claim that I am diminishing Obama, I am not. I just think that is a factor no one is discussing.
PVD, I appreciate your words. I left the JJ in Richmond as one PO’d democrat because I spent far too much time fighting with Obama supporters who were going taking their ball and going home if he failed to prevail. Took some of the fun our of the weekend and keeps me from visiting Kos and RK at least until our little kerfuffle is settled.
Newport News Dem, after the primary I went to the Virginia Elections web site and did a comparison of the 2000, 2004 and this election. After running pages of numbers it was apparent to me that at least 23% of the VA republicans crossed the line and voted for Obama (against Hillary). They knew that McCain was in so voting for him was of no concern.
I don’t believe that any of these republicans will vote for Obama, the most liberal Senator in the Senate, in the general election.
That guy was just a horrible campaign messenger. Probably has not taken the time to research indepth.
I agree, Viv, he couldn’t come up with a single thing and it WAS funny — AND painful. But just because this guy is sitting there with his finger stuck in his nose doesn’t mean Obama hasn’t done anything. I bet there are some Democrats in the VA General Assembly who can’t tell you anthing of substance that Obama or Hillary have done, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t — you just have some uninformed Dems.
And we ARE loosened up. I’m not angry with Hillary, but I’m not terribly impressed either. She’s a VERY smart woman, but she ain’t getting it done right now. I would love to see her replace Harry “Orville Redenbacher” Reid as Senate Majority Leader.
Why is criticism of Hillary considered “attacks” and “negative comments,” but criticism of Obama is just, well . . . “criticism?”
Also, I came to this site several times last Tuesday and Wednesday after the primary, figuring I would get some great stories and comments about the VA primary. But there was nothing. In fact, the only thing I found was a short piece about R’s crossing over to vote in the Dem primary. Why not some great follow-up about the Obama-Clinton battle? I realize it was a blow-out, but still, there had to be some interesting follow-up in there somewhere.
T-shirt,
If it’s Obama vs. McCain in the general election, many Republicans will crossover.
Vivian did a whole piece on such crossover voting, Newport News Dem.
Meatloaf
Two reasons. #1 – I have a job and can only blog when time permits. Which leads me to #2 – if a topic has already been covered elsewhere, I try not to do “me, too” posts. If I have something new or different to say, I’ll cover it. In this case, the only thing that seemed to have slipped thru the cracks was the issue of crossover voting (and what happened in CD9), which I did follow up on.
HMR,
What you say is possible. I just think it is unlikely that any true republican will vote for the most liberal man in the US for president.
After talking to and reading about the primary voting I have no insight into how anyone might vote.’
After the VA primary I was talking with a woman that shared how she and her husband voted. She, laughing all the time, said that she voted for Obama and her husband voted for Huckabee. But, in the general election she would vote for McCain and her was going to vote for Obama.
This appeared to be a game with her. She thought it was funny. Unfortunately, she nor her husband had any idea of the political implications of their vote. As I talked with her she had no idea of the issues of the candidates.
There seems to be a very large number of American voters that have no idea about what they are voting for, they are just voting. Voting is the American thing to do, it isn’t important what you vote for but that you vote.
I guess, what I’m saying is that who knows how anyone will vote. They will wait for MSNBC, CNN or FOX to tell them.
T-shirt and others, Glad to validate that what was happening here in my Virginia county was happening elsewhere. Come November these Republicans (who knew what they were doing on 2/12 in voting for Obama) will be voting straight Republican tickets.
And Newport News Dem, the folks who attended the JJ in my area were PO’d too. They said “never again”.
You say that like it’s a bad thing, sleepless.
Hi Vivian, I watched the very poor performance by an Obama supporter vs. a co-chair of HRC’s campaign and one of the most terrifically talented members of the U.S. House we Democrats currently have (and someone who IMO would make a marvelous Speaker) . It looked like it was his first (and last) time in the national spotlight and he was unprepared and flustered.
However, ff you follow this link the information should help you better know the extensive legislative background of our next President of the United States
http://virginiadem.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/barack-obamas-hard-work-in-illinois-legislature-and-us-senate/
and please take time to watch the video from last night on how to bring about real change http://virginiadem.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/barack-obama-on-how-to-bring-about-real-change/
Fired Up! Ready To Go!
Shawn
God, I miss Richardson.(2)