Nutroot Wishful Thinking
By 186 on May 13, 2008
Another Nutroot / Progressive delusion.
Democrats really aren’t divided it’s just that the left has allowed that “narrative” to develop….oh and Clinton or Obama will enjoy their fair share of Republican crossover voters?
MyDD :: But What About The Republican Defectors?
Funny how, at a time when things really couldn’t be worse for Republicans, we’ve allowed a narrative to develop (in fact, we’ve fueled it) about how divided the Democratic Party is and how damaged the eventual nominee will be as a result of the fractured bases of the two candidates. The fact is, Republicans are loving it and, yes, are using it to prop up John McCain.
………What’s left out of the conversation, however — conveniently for John McCain — is not only the number of Republicans voting against the presumptive nominee in primary after primary, which, as Chris Dodd pointed out on Meet The Press, is usually in the 20-25% range, but also the number of Republicans likely to vote Democratic in the general election.
John McCain is one of the more “independent” Republicans, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two of the more far left members of the Democratic party.
Forget the polls, do the math and ask yourself who are “Independents” and swingable Republicans more likely to vote for?
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