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Pew Poll: 20% of White Democrats Vote McCain If Obama Is The Nominee
Pew Poll ^ | February 28 2008 | Pew Poll

Posted on 02/28/2008 6:48:09 PM PST by jveritas

Democratic Base Fissures

Although attention has been focused on McCain's problems with the GOP base, there are indications that some Democrats might defect if Obama is the party's nominee. Overall, 20% of white Democratic voters say they would vote for McCain if Obama is the Democratic nominee. That is twice the percentage of white Democrats who say they would support McCain in a Clinton-McCain matchup. Older Democrats (ages 65 and older), lower-income and less educated Democrats also would support McCain at higher levels if Obama rather than Clinton is the party's nominee.

Read more at http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=398


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackhusseinobama; barackobama; chebama; cultofobama; election; hillary; husseinobama; mccain; nobama; obama; seniorsvote; whitevote
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According to a Pew Poll conducted from February 20-24 2008, 20% of white democrats will vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee. So let Obama be the democrat nominee :)
1 posted on 02/28/2008 6:48:18 PM PST by jveritas
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To: jveritas

Ir’s probably more than 20%.


2 posted on 02/28/2008 6:48:53 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Norman Bates

John McCain ping


3 posted on 02/28/2008 6:49:02 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: jveritas

dem’s are racists.


4 posted on 02/28/2008 6:49:55 PM PST by edcoil (Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
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To: jveritas

Yep. Obama is too far left.


5 posted on 02/28/2008 6:50:34 PM PST by GVnana ("They're still analyzing the first guy. What do I have to worry about?" - GWB)
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To: LdSentinal

yes, think of how much more it will be when these white democrats actually know something about him. ;)


6 posted on 02/28/2008 6:51:25 PM PST by Tears of a Clown
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To: jveritas

The older democrats are the ones who grew up with Democrat leaders against Blacks.


7 posted on 02/28/2008 6:51:30 PM PST by paudio (Conservatism: like it or not, it's a word with many meanings.)
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To: jveritas

Knowing Mad John, he would tell that 20% not to vote for him if they were merely voting against Che’ Obama...

I’m only half joking.


8 posted on 02/28/2008 6:51:41 PM PST by padre35 (Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3/Cry havoc and let slip the RINOS)
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To: jveritas

The MSM will use this to try to shame people into voting Obama...you are “racist” if you don’t.


9 posted on 02/28/2008 6:51:49 PM PST by dinoparty
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To: LdSentinal

i fully expect this...


10 posted on 02/28/2008 6:51:51 PM PST by latina4dubya
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To: LdSentinal

Yup, way more than 20%. Those were the ones that answered honestly to the poll. Another 10% or more know that once they close that curtain in the voting booth; there is nobody watching, listening, or telling them what to do but themselves.


11 posted on 02/28/2008 6:52:11 PM PST by HD1200
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To: jveritas

Blacks probably make up nearly 50% of the Democratic vote.


12 posted on 02/28/2008 6:52:12 PM PST by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: Clintonfatigued

McCain will condemn this.


13 posted on 02/28/2008 6:52:44 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: paudio

“grew up with Democrat leaders against Blacks.”

how then do 98% of blacks vote democrat?


14 posted on 02/28/2008 6:52:44 PM PST by edcoil (Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
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To: jveritas

My thought is there are a lot of middle class traditionalists that vote Democrat simply because they don’t realize the party left them years ago. We all know them. They are in total denial over the secular progressive agenda of the Democrat party. A lot of union midwesterners from places like Michigan, etc.

Obama is going to rub their faces in the fact the todays Democrats have more in common with Germany or Castro than the JFK they remember.


15 posted on 02/28/2008 6:52:57 PM PST by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: jveritas
The number of "McCain Democrats" will make the Reagan democrats look puny.

Osamabama's best days have come and gone.

He's got no place to go but down and before this is over he will be totally discredited.

16 posted on 02/28/2008 6:53:27 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: dinoparty

yes. but that could backfire on them. My older relatives would think “so the liberal media thinks I am racist, eh? Well then I better prove them right and vote for Mccain”!


17 posted on 02/28/2008 6:53:27 PM PST by HD1200
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To: jveritas
That's true. Large numbers of Republican and independent voters will likely swing to vote for Hillary, if Obama isn't nominated. Feminists, along with religious (see '90s "swing vote") and import interests (China, for one) are hoping that Hillary will be nominated. Many are afraid that McCain will be too hawkish about defense (that he'll stop Iran from building nukes and the like).
18 posted on 02/28/2008 6:53:36 PM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), '89-'96)
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To: jveritas
It is the Wilder factor. Most poll respondents who are democrats when asked who they voted for said the black guy, however when in the voting booth, they actually pulled the lever for the other guy....
19 posted on 02/28/2008 6:54:25 PM PST by The Forgotten Man (He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always pays....)
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To: jveritas

Pew is also the company that says every one hates America in the world.


20 posted on 02/28/2008 6:54:31 PM PST by edcoil (Go Great in 08 ... Slide into 09)
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