Hillary Is Literally The GOP Candidate Of Choice (For Now)
The Boston Globe reports that Hillary is benefitting mightily from Republicans hoping to sway the outcome of the Democratic race:
For a party that loves to hate the Clintons, Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show.
A sudden change of heart? Hardly.
Since Senator John McCain effectively sewed up the GOP nomination last month, Republicans have begun participating in Democratic primaries specifically to vote for Clinton, a tactic that some voters and local Republican activists think will help their party in November. With every delegate important in the tight Democratic race, this trend could help shape the outcome if it continues in the remaining Democratic primaries open to all voters.
Spurred by conservative talk radio, GOP voters who say they would never back Clinton in a general election are voting for her now for strategic reasons: Some want to prolong her bitter nomination battle with Barack Obama, others believe she would be easier to beat than Obama in the fall, or they simply want to register objections to Obama.
This is what Hillary calls momentum. For more on Republican Party preference for Hillary see:
- ELECTABILITY IS EVERYTHING (02/03/08)
Yet, none of this appears to phase Hillary and her supporters who seem hellbent on fighting dirty 'til the finish in order to tarnish Obama so badly that the super delegates will not be reluctant to overturn the will the people (Obama has an insurmountable delegate lead). Wow. Sick. Gross. Unbelievable. Unreal. Despicable. Outrageous. Contemptible. And stupid.
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