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How Disgusting! It wasn’t that long ago that the #NeverTrumpers pretended to be staunch conservatives too principled to support Republican record-setter Donald Trump. Not anymore. This week the #NeverTrumpers openly cheered Hillary Clinton and the Democrat-Socialist party.

Bernie Supporters Say They're Voting For Trump

Kasich on relationship with democrats: “TAPPER:Why do you think so many conservatives look at you as not one of them] KASICH: I don't know. It's a mystery to me. When you've balanced as many budgets as I have, cut as much taxes, been for as much school choice, reformed welfare, end the entitlement, go through all of this, grow government at a very small amount. I - I don't understand it, other than maybe sometimes I say we need to work together with the Democrats because I believe that everybody ought to have an opportunity to rise. You know, the...

Will liberal voters hand Ted Cruz the Republican nomination? So goes the theory posited in a Wednesday story in the New York Times. The idea is that if Hillary Clinton is the inevitable Democratic nominee, participating in the Democratic primaries would be pointless. So, it would behoove liberal voters to cross over to the Republican races and vote for whom they think will be the most unelectable candidate now running. Oddly, the Times thinks that person is Cruz, the conservative firebrand from Texas and not, as many might have thought, Donald Trump, the mercurial businessman, and media personality. In any...

Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-Miss.) primary challenger Chris McDaniel is looking into possible legal routes to challenge Cochran’s runoff win. Multiple sources tell The Hill that the campaign is evaluating their options after Cochran orchestrated an improbable win over McDaniel on Tuesday night, defeating the challenger by about 6,300 votes. The campaign’s concerns hinge on heavily African-American Hinds County, which includes the state capital of Jackson and where nearly 70 percent of the residents are black and the voting population is more Democratic than most counties in the state. Cochran netted about 7,000 more votes there in the runoff than the...

With new polls showing his campaign gaining momentum, Mitt Romney is venturing into what might be viewed as unfriendly territory, visiting counties in swing states that voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 and urging the president's supporters to switch sides. The strategy is crucial to the Republican nominee: With the pool of undecided voters now small, Mr. Romney's best path to building a majority includes stripping Mr. Obama of some of his more tentative supporters. "I'd like you to go out and find one person who voted for Barack Obama, or maybe two or three or four or five,...

The recently rolled out "Democrats for Brown" coalition has racked up nearly 500 Democratic politicians and grassroots supporters statewide. Representative Chris Fallon was the first Democrat currently serving in the State Legislature to cross over when he gave his public endorsement to Republican Senator Scott Brown late last week. Fallon joined the likes of Springfield's former Democratic Mayor Charlie Ryan and Boston's Ray Flynn, as well as Worcester's own former Mayor and current City Councilor Konnie Lukes, who appeared in one of Brown's campaign ads earlier this election cycle. The three former mayors will serve as co-chairs of the newly-formed...

Why not? Almost all of my friends are Democrats; all of them voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Ask them these days, as I have, if they plan to vote for Obama this November, and they’ll give you an “Oh shucks” sad smile, look down, look back up with guilty eyes and say “I’m disappointed.” Then they play the party line and say. “But Romney? But Ryan?” I’m not talking about those African Americans, Latinos and lockstep Democrats who’ll blindly vote for Obama no matter how high unemployment may be or what shape this country may be in. I’m talking...

Almost all of my friends are Democrats; all of them voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Ask them these days, as I have, if they plan to vote for Obama this November, and they’ll give you an “Oh shucks” sad smile, look down, look back up with guilty eyes and say “I’m disappointed.” I’m talking about a good number of intelligent, caring, middle-class Democrats who are a soft nudge away from casting their vote for Romney. All they need to know is that they’re not alone. In 1980, Carter treated Reagan as a ridiculous figure who, among other things, was...

A succession of high profile left wing decisions and initiatives of recent weeks drive home the extent to which the left is changing the face of America. Notable among these are the decision of a federal appeals court in California to uphold a prior court decision finding California’s Proposition 8, defining marriage as between a man and a woman, unconstitutional; the reversal of a decision, due to a tsunami of left wing pressure, of the Susan G. Komen Foundation to withdraw its funding to Planned Parenthood; and the Obama administration rulemaking refusing to grant a religious exemption from the new...

Bayh warned that stripping Lieberman of his chairmanship position on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee could prompt the Democrats' 2000 vice presidential nominee to side with the GOP on close votes next Congress or resign his Senate seat. If he resigns, Connecticut's Republican Gov. Jodi Rell would replace Lieberman with a temporary two-year appointment, likely a GOP senator.

As voters left the polls on Election Day, many were asked how they would have voted if the election match-up were between Hillary Clinton and John McCain rather than Barack Obama and McCain. 52 percent said they would have backed the former Democratic candidate; 41 percent would have voted for McCain, wider than Obama’s 7-point margin over McCain.

If you know the answer to this question, you know who our next President will be. While it is possible for McCain to win even if this factor is negligible, he would need to get virtually all of the undecided’s to break his way. That is theoretically possible but it is mostly wishful thinking on the part of McCain-Palin supporters. For every undecided voter either candidate picks up, it takes a vote out of the undecided column and adds one to that candidate's total. However, the spread between the two candidates only goes up by one vote. That is not...

Link only: Former Hillary backers want party to change http://www.app.com/article/20081101/POLITICS/811010318/1024

The former Democratic speechwriter, who came out for McCain on The Daily Beast this week, responds to the death threats and hostile comments that ensued with a plea for civility.

In a recent posting, I went on the record to say that John McCain should win the presidential election Tuesday, and I listed five reasons which lead me to this conclusion. They are media bias, pollster oversampling of Democrats, Obama campaign hubris, the Democrat candidate's many suspect associations and the fact that the American electorate has a center-right majority. There is a sixth reason to believe that the GOP candidate will pull this one out of the fire, and, like the other five, it is a topic you won't read much about in the newspapers or see on the alphabet...

I am an ex-democrat conservative, which puts me in great company with the likes of Ronald Reagan, and others. To have once been a die-hard Democrat is to understand the left and be able to emphasize (not necessarily agree) with their views. To be a conservative independent is to understand the left is not always right, and the liberal left is rarely right. To not be a Republican means I refuse to be trapped in party mob think, and there are folks on the far right who can turn me off as fast as a rabid socialist liberal. If you...

PUMAs for McCain. Inspiring Music by American Composer Aaron Copeland, "Fanfare for the Common Man".

The Democrats in key swing states are splitting for McCain in big numbers. This effect has either not been noted, or has been ignored, by most pundits. Democrats are beaming that their party is outperforming the Republicans in early voting, releasing numbers Wednesday that show registrants of their party ahead 54 percent to 30 percent among the 1.4 million voters who have gone to the polls early. Poll gives McCain lead in Florida early voting Yet, a poll of early voters in Florida provides a curious anomaly. A Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll gave McCain a 49-45 lead over Democrat Barack...

By Alan Fram and Trevor Tompson, Associated Press Writers Barack Obama's support from backers of Hillary Rodham Clinton is stuck smack whwre it was in June, a poll showed Tuesday, a stunning lack of progress that is weakening with members of the Democratic Party in the close presidential race. An Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll shows that among adults who backed his rival during their bitter primary campaign percent now support Obama. That is the same percentage who said so in June...