It goes on.
QUESTION: If there were a situation where Clinton’s most dedicated supporters managed to wrest the nomination away from Barack Obama at the convention, do they seriously believe Obama supporters would then vote for Clinton? How could she win with so many Obama people staying home?
And if they sit on their hands in November or vote for McCain, and exit polls show Clinton supporters contributed to an Obama defeat, do they seriously believe Clinton will receive votes from the Obama forces in 2012? Increasingly, they resemble the people who kept the Democrats disunited and out in the national election wilderness for years. Democrats have won in years when they wanted it so bad, they could taste it. Some Democrats can’t taste it.
FOOTNOTE: The latest polls show a race still deadlocked. Rasmussen: McCain 43%, Obama 45%…Gallup Daily Tracking: McCain 42%, Obama 47%.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.