Obama Expatriates: silhouette@suddenlink.net

Write-In Hillary Clinton.

Yeah – I thought that the MSNBC poll last Friday went a long way to display the myth that Obama was “in trouble” with women voters. If memory serves me correctly, it showed female voters preferred Obama by 52% to 33% for McCain, and Clinton-primary-voters preferred Obama by 60% to 19%. (It also showed Obama winning over other oft-claimed “trouble” groups like Hispanics by 62%-28%, Catholics, blue-collar workers, and even the subgroup white-women).

I am also quite tired of the media playing up the “bitter Clinton supporters” causing trouble. In reality it is a very tiny group that is just very vocal, and since the media likes controversy they play it up as much as possible. I expect as the general election season progresses we will hear less and less about Clinton as she fades away into history. I'm just annoyed at how *long* it is taking for her to fade away.

>>But Obama had better get busy, the Post reports. While 9 in 10 Republicans support McCain, a little less than 8 in 10 Democrats suppport Obama <<

Yes — but since the number of voters who self-identify as Democrats is greater than the number of self-identified Republicans (a trend that has only increased over the past several years), Obama doesn't *need* as large a majority of Democrats as McCain needs from the Republicans. A smaller slice of the pie suffices if the pie itself is larger.

Furthermore, I wonder just how much cross-party support there is among the candidates. i.e. — how many Republicans support Obama vs how many Democrats support McCain. I know those numbers are pretty small, but I am willing to bet that there are more Republicans willing to vote for Obama than the other way around.

Considering that McCain has almost no chance of winning in any state that Kerry won in 2004 except maybe New Hampshire but that Obama will win Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa, and will force the Republicans to expend resource s in Virginia and North Carolina, it is hard to really believe that this will be a competitive race.

I guess that the media will keep performing biased polls and finding things to talk about to keep people interested.

If you really want to see the future of politics, look at the special election in the 4th Maryland Congressional District. The incumbent Democrat, Albert Wynn, lost in the primary in February to Democrat Donna Edwards. Since the Republican candidate has zero chance of winning, Donna Edwards will be the next Congressional representative from the 4th District. Rep. Wynn decided he did not want to be a lame duck for 11 months and thus, resigned. The idiot Democrats in Maryland decided to have a special election to fill the unfilled seat for six months. The special election is a total waste of time and the general election result is a foregone conclusion. Yet, the election apparatus operating on inertia keeps having to act like Maryland is not a one party state.