Dustin James (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dustinjames) wrote,@ 2008-05-20 21:30:00 |
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60% is now the *NEW* threshold
60% of people who voted for Clinton in the Kentucky primary would not vote for Obama in the general election. Kentucky isn't competitive with Obama on the ticket, it's within 2% if Clinton is at the top, so it's just a swing state with her, much like North Carolina is with him. But West Virginia is a true swing state however, it went Democrat in 92 and 96 and Republican in 2000 and 04, and the numbers are just as scary there.
To the tune of Rehab by Amy Winehouse:
"They try to make me vote Obama, I say no, no, no."
I've had a change of heart. While I still sincerely hope that Clinton is the top of the ticket, but if she isn't, that she doesn't take the VP spot. I at some point had said that if she didn't win but joined up with Obama, that I would still vote that ticket, I've decided against that recently, and if Clinton is not the nominee, I want to watch him go down in flames. I want to be able to say "you dumb fucks, I told you so."
I'm still working hard for her and at our most recent (congressional), Obama could not fill his entire slate of delegates because 34 of his delegates chose not to show up. 32 alternates showed, so he only lost 2 of his delegates at the congressional level, but Clinton had 100% of hers filled with 67 delegates and 3 alternates showing to make the 70 needed.
I was talking with some of the Obama people while we were awaiting the final counts and I noted that most of the people who were absent were delegates who fit the 'high school to college age' profile; notoriously the most unreliable voters ever. If 34 of his 'youth vote' didn't show when a major slip like giving Clinton pledged delegates on error (and yes, most of the alternates were either black or older or women, traditionally the strongest democratic voters) could help her towards the nomination, what the heck are they going to do if they think he's got it in the bag in November?
Anyway, John McCain is a republican I could live through without wanting to die like Bush. I contemplated voting for him in 2000 if he was going to get the nomination even though I liked Gore more.
Many, MANY (who knows, a majority?) in our Hillary Clinton democratic caucus have NO desire to vote for Obama in the fall. Count me in as part of that 60%.
60% of people who voted for Clinton in the Kentucky primary would not vote for Obama in the general election. Kentucky isn't competitive with Obama on the ticket, it's within 2% if Clinton is at the top, so it's just a swing state with her, much like North Carolina is with him. But West Virginia is a true swing state however, it went Democrat in 92 and 96 and Republican in 2000 and 04, and the numbers are just as scary there.
To the tune of Rehab by Amy Winehouse:
"They try to make me vote Obama, I say no, no, no."
I've had a change of heart. While I still sincerely hope that Clinton is the top of the ticket, but if she isn't, that she doesn't take the VP spot. I at some point had said that if she didn't win but joined up with Obama, that I would still vote that ticket, I've decided against that recently, and if Clinton is not the nominee, I want to watch him go down in flames. I want to be able to say "you dumb fucks, I told you so."
I'm still working hard for her and at our most recent (congressional), Obama could not fill his entire slate of delegates because 34 of his delegates chose not to show up. 32 alternates showed, so he only lost 2 of his delegates at the congressional level, but Clinton had 100% of hers filled with 67 delegates and 3 alternates showing to make the 70 needed.
I was talking with some of the Obama people while we were awaiting the final counts and I noted that most of the people who were absent were delegates who fit the 'high school to college age' profile; notoriously the most unreliable voters ever. If 34 of his 'youth vote' didn't show when a major slip like giving Clinton pledged delegates on error (and yes, most of the alternates were either black or older or women, traditionally the strongest democratic voters) could help her towards the nomination, what the heck are they going to do if they think he's got it in the bag in November?
Anyway, John McCain is a republican I could live through without wanting to die like Bush. I contemplated voting for him in 2000 if he was going to get the nomination even though I liked Gore more.
Many, MANY (who knows, a majority?) in our Hillary Clinton democratic caucus have NO desire to vote for Obama in the fall. Count me in as part of that 60%.
