SFist: Have You Heard About "The Plot"?

rahir

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:05:23 -0800

My grandmother (in Dayton, OH) called and bragged about how she "crossed over" and voted for Obama so that "evil" Hillary wouldn't win. I was appalled.

rroseselavy

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:40:42 -0800

Think of all the non-registered-Democrats (independents and Republicans included) who voted in the Democratic open primary in California -- and every other state with an open primary. Do you think they're all interested in what's best for the Democratic party? This just comes with the territory. OK, server error -- sorry if I'm double posting.

rroseselavy

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:40:21 -0800

Generic

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:40:33 -0800

16,000 is significant. It could have shifted a delegate. And we all know how dearly precious each and every one of those are by now, don't we? But fair is fair. The Democrats did it by the thousands in the 2000 California Republican Presidential Primary in favor of McCain. We also did it this year in Minnesota for Romney. More interesting to me is how Hillary is making common cause with Rush Limbaugh. Bill Clinton actually was a guest on Rush's show the day of the Texas primary. You can listen to the audio here. If the Clintons teaming up with Rush Freaking Limbaugh doesn't tell you all you need to know, then I don't know what will. It's fascinating though. You have a lot of Republicans choosing Hillary because they think she'll be easier to be in the general. But you never hear of any rank & file Republicans thinking Obama will be easier to beat. Interesting ...

iris

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:35:50 -0800

I actually considered doing that, only voting for Bush way back in they day because I thought there was no chance in hell of folks being stupid enough to elect a gibbering idiot. And it turned out an idiot is me. :P

xyz123

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:41:37 -0800

If we are going to get political, can we talk about Hillary offering the VP spot on her ticket to Obama? Pretty bold to offer the VP spot to the person currently BEATING her by 100+ delegates.

xyz123

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:40:15 -0800

If we are going to get political, can we talk about Hillary offering the VP spot on her ticket to Obama? Pretty bold to offer the VP spot to the person currently BEATING her by 100+ delegates.

wsanders

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:12:14 -0800

Wake me up if any superdelegates claim to have had their precious bodily fluids sapped and impurified.

xyz123

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:04:57 -0800

She won by 300,000 votes so I don't think that 16,000 republicans made much of a dent if true. I think this could have been more of an issue in Texas where the race was closer.

mushmouth

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:03:42 -0800

Uhh, when did sfist become a wannabe DailyKos or TPM? Most of the exit polls have shown Barack receiving a heck of a lot more crossover support than Hillary. 2 weeks ago there was a report using exit polls that Hillary had received more than 500,000 more votes from actual Democrats than Obama had. That wasn't even including Michigan or Florida (or Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island or Vermont). This is simply another attempt by insecure Obama supporters to give another set of sour grapes over a Clinton victory, just like the New Hampshire "Voter Fraud" that a partial (but large) hand recount proved not to be the case. http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/9/142251/4543