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David In Indy:
Please don't vote for who you would LIKE to see win the Presidential election, but rather who you honestly THINK will win the election in November 2008.

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Personally, as much as I hope and wish Barack Obama wins the presidency in November, I think John McCain will be our next president. One of the things that makes me nervous about Barack Obama being the Democratic nominee (and I voted for Obama last Tuesday) is many of the conservative, rural Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton during the primaries, will switch to Republican and vote for John McCain this fall.

What do you think?

louisev:
whoever gets nominated for the Democrats wins.  McCain's platform of Bush's 3rd term will win over exactly that 28% who believe Bush is doing a good job.

injest:
I voted McCain. I think there is just too much for the Republicans to make hay with there for Barack to win.

Nevermore:
I agree.
There's this thinking out there that Barack Obama somehow spoiled Hillary Clinton's run for the Presidency, but when I actually poll (informally of course) registered Democrats why they voted for one or the other, there are two quite distinctive schools of thought--it's not down to a coin toss between two worthy candidates as the media supposes. It wasn't Obama that presented Sen. Clinton's biggest obstacle, it was the unlikely emergence of Sen. McCain as the Republican contender--who would have thought it?
Obama appeals to the idealists, Clinton appeals to the pragamatists. Clinton did so well among older women not because they're women but because they're older, and therefore remember other "breaths of fresh air," McGovern, Carter, Gary Hart, Ross Perot, and yes, the current president. Obama supporters have further alienated these independent-to-center-leaning voters by implying that racism must of course be at the heart of their reasoning, when in actuality, the attitude could be summed up as their impression of Sen. Obama was that he was only 46 years old, a junior senator, and simply not ready for prime time.
I've been to an Obama rally and I've been to a charsimatic revival, and found the atmosphere in both places similar.  Someone here keeps comparing it to "drinking the Koolaid."
Well, not everyone has drunk of the Koolaid. Come November, when it's time to mop up the mess left over from the outgoing administration, I think most voters will decide to hand over the job to a seasoned veteran rather than an untested rookie.   It's the same type of thinking that informed the choice of Clinton over Obama--assuming he ends up the Democratic nominee, Clinton voters will shift their support to the other seasoned veteran. It really is as simple as that.

jstephens9:
I do not think Bush is doing a good job at all nor do I really like McCain at all, but the thing is that I do not like Obama at all. In fact I find him to be quite scary. I have no idea what this man is into and the idea of finding that out makes him even scarier. I am not a conservative Democrat at all; however, I have been a Democrat all my life and if Obama gets the nomination this will be the first time I vote for a Republican. And the fact that not liking Obama somehow makes me a racist as some suggest even makes me madder. I am not and never have been a racist. My dislike of Obama has nothing to do with his color. It has to do with him. I would never vote for someone with an attitude like his regardless of what color he or she was. I am not even in love with Hillary since she has her own problems, but her problems are far less in my mind than Obama's. I really do not think there is a good choice among the candidates, but I certainly would vote for her over the others.

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