you write: (For the record, even though I can’t support McCain, I sure as heck won’t be voting for the hard-core socialist Obama. But there are a bunch of people who will, out of protest.)
A whole bunch, eh? Name both of them...
Hillary Clinton denounces anti-black supporter
Staff Reporter (elderly hispanic lady gives obama hell)
Posted February 28, 2008 5:52 PM
Sen. Hillary Clinton today rejected and denounced what some considered racist comments from one of her Hispanic supporters in Texas. Clinton supporter Adelfa Callejo had told the media that black politicians have done nothing for Hispanics and that Barack Obama “simply has a problem that he happens to be black.”
The 84-year-old Dallas Latina leader said that “when the blacks had the numbers, they never did anything to support us. ... There’s a lot of hurt feelings about that. And I don’t think we’re going to get over it anytime soon.”
In a separate interview Wednesday night, Callejo seemed to repeat the assertion to The Dallas Morning News even as she seemed to distance herself from her own words. “I have been told by a lot of people that they did not trust him because he is black,” she said. “They don’t trust him because of the local people. But that is minor, compared to his lack of experience. The most important thing is that there is no track record with him with Hispanics,” she said. Callejo then added: “I don’t think it is fair that that feeling exists.”
I’ve heard and read a lot of conservative people saying that they would rather vote for a democrat over McCain, because “it is better having an avowed enemy than a ‘friend’ who is quite likely to stab you in the back”.
Of them, about half are thinking of voting for Hillary because she is more of a realist than Obama, and therefore a little safer. The other half are thinking of voting for Obama because they think that because of his naivety and lack of national political experience he can be better controlled and led by congress and the other ‘powers that be’.
(I’m not saying that either strategy will be correct; Just that it is a not uncommon thing)
OK; I’ll admit that 20% was an exaggeration. I just said that because that was the number given in the survey expected to do the opposite.
But if you think that there aren’t a significant number of conservatives that will NOT vote for McCain, and of them, some number who WILL vote for the (whichever) democrat in protest, you haven’t been paying attention outside of your own little echo chambers.
I haven’t made up my mind yet what I, personally, will do.
But every time I start thinking that I will ‘suck it up’ and vote for McCain he does or says something new to Make me REALLY angry all over again.