Letters to the Editor
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Of course Republicans vote in the Dem primaries
The Republican candidate is chosen. There's no need to vote for him. Since the Dem is not, there's an opportunity to vote for the lesser of evils. Because any sensible voter, Republican or Democrat has to figure that the election will be close and there's a good chance of either candidate winning.
Maybe Hillary would be easier for McCain to beat, but before voting for her, Hillary haters have to consider that she stands a pretty good chance of winning. Who'd want to have helped vote in their worst nightmare?
Anyway, it's not on orders from Republican Central. It's common sense. And I'd think a lot of those votes represent who the Republicans think is better, not easier to beat.
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Think About It
DON'T BE DUPED!!!
Large numbers of Republicans have been voting for Barack Obama in the DEMOCRATIC primaries, and caucuses. Because they feel he would be a weaker opponent against John McCain. And because they feel that a Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ticket would be unbeatable. And also because with a Clinton and Obama ticket you are almost 100% certain to get quality, affordable universal health care very soon.
But first, all of you have to make certain that Hillary Clinton takes the democratic nomination and then the Whitehouse. NOW! is the time. THIS! is the moment you have all been working, and waiting for. You can do this America. “Carpe diem” (harvest the day).
I think Hillary Clinton see’s a beautiful world of plenty, and comfort for all. She is a woman, and a mother. And it’s time America. Do this for your-self, and your children’s future. You will have to work together on this and be aggressive, relentless, and creative. Americans face an even worse catastrophe ahead than the one you are living through now.
You see, the medical and insurance industry mostly support the republicans with the money they ripped off from you. And they don’t want you to have quality, affordable universal health care. They want to be able to continue to rip you off, and kill you and your children by continuing to deny you life saving medical care that you have already paid for. So they can continue to make more immoral profits for them-self.
Hillary Clinton has actually won by much larger margins than the vote totals showed. And lost by much smaller vote margins than the vote totals showed. Her delegate count is actually much higher than it shows. And higher than Obama’s. HILLARY CLINTON IS ALREADY THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE!
As much as 30% of Obama's primary, and caucus votes are Republicans trying to choose the weakest democratic candidate for McCain to run against. These Republicans have been gaming the caucuses where it is easier to vote cheat. This is why Obama has not been able to win the BIG! states primaries. Even with Republican vote cheating help.
Hillary Clinton has been out manned, out gunned, and out spent 2 and 3 to 1. Yet Obama has only been able to manage a very tenuous, and questionable tie with Hillary Clinton.
If Obama is the democratic nominee for the national election in November he will be slaughtered. Because the Republican vote cheating help will suddenly evaporate. All of this vote fraud and republican manipulation has made Obama falsely look like a much stronger candidate than he really is. YOUNG PEOPLE. DON’T BE DUPED! Think about it. You have the most to lose.
The democratic party needs to fix this outrage. I suggest a Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ticket now! Everyone needs to throw all your support to Hillary Clinton NOW! So you can end this outrage against YOU the voter, and against democracy.
I think Barack Obama has a once in a life time chance to make the ultimate historic gesture for unity, and change in America by accepting Hillary Clinton’s offer as running mate. Such an act now would for ever seal Barack Obama’s place at the top of the list of Americas all time great leaders, and unifiers for all of history. But the time to act is soon.
The democratic party, and the super-delegates have a decision to make. Are the democrats, and the democratic party going to choose the DEMOCRATIC party nominee to fight for the American people. Or are the republicans going to choose the DEMOCRATIC party nominee through vote fraud, and gaming the DEMOCRATIC party primaries, and caucuses.
Fortunately the Clinton’s have been able to hold on against this fraudulent outrage with those repeated dramatic comebacks of Hillary Clinton’s. Only the Clinton’s are that resourceful, and strong. Hillary Clinton is your NOMINEE. They are the best I have ever seen.
“This is not a game” (Hillary Clinton)
Sincerely
jacksmith...
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Its a Conspiracy, Folks
It is in the campaigns' interests to whip up the speculation as to which would be better to defeat McCain, and it is in the media's interest too, to play up that the presidential campaign is a 50:50 proposition so that even the slightest edge will make the difference.
The problem is that this is all bullshit. Does anybody besides crazed diehard Republicans actually believe McCain has a snowball's chance in hell of winning against either candidate?
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@indigodem2: www.fivethirtyeight.com very cool, very geeky
But it is any good? Looks dificult to check under the hood and poke around.
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What A Shame
My wife and I spent the last couple hours watching the first two parts of the HBO special "John Adams". As I've read these threads, including my own superficial and trivializing participation, it has occurred to me that America may already be done, overwhelmed by indifference, materialism, the ignorance inculcated in our public schools (and countenanced by us), by the dominance of money and the concentration of power in the military industrial complex. We have no easy choices, my friends. One thing is clear: the time for half measures is long past. Safe candidates with safe messages have gotten us where we are. Why should we be convinced that another safe establishment candidate can be the one to make the first of many turns away from the destructive course that we have allowed to be set for us. I still believe in this country, and in the ideals expressed by Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and the rest. We have, in our collective complacency, allowed those ideals to be corroded almost beyond recognition. I'll not delve into specific issues here, but first principles only. There will be four choices in November: sit it out in complacency or cynicism; vote for John McCain and his perpetuation of what Bush/Cheney have brought us (again, with our complicity); vote for Nader and his egomaniacal pursuit of purity; or vote for whichever Democratic candidate emerges from the rapidly disintegrating primary process. That's all we have, unless someone wants to propose a new Declaration, and pick up a gun to back that up. So, I would beseech you, stop asking picayune and self-indulgent questions. Stop denigrating two relatively decent candidates for some trivial and transitory association or slip of the tongue. One one thing counts: who could actually have a chance to begin a transformation that will take at least a generation? I have no trouble making that choice, but I appreciate that other may either wrestle with the choice, revile my choice, or have made a choice no voice can change. Fine. We must agree that however imperfect we find the process-and it is deeply disfigured- that we will vote for whichever Democratic candidate prevails. In this, I implicitly waive the vicissitudes of super delegates, overall popular vote, big states or small states, open primaries or caucuses, the outcome of Florida and Michigan, however repellent we may find what transpires there. It is not that I do not have strong feelings about those issues. The greater good is that we vote as if it mattered, and that the words that those men wrote 230 years ago still obligate us to act as if it were our brothers, our sons, our mothers and our sisters, who sacrificed and dies so that we would have this choice. Stop trivializing this. Cease your mean-spirited one up-manship and petty games. I say this in the full knowledge I've been as trivial as almost anyone on these threads. Are we Americans, in the way we're supposed to be, or do we want to foul the nest we have to live in? I truly believe this is the most important election since 1860, taking into account how important '32 and '68 were, and, indeed, how precious every election is. There may not be many more. Impossible? Read a history book. How's that Roman Empire coming along? Is Greek dominance still at its apex? Austro-Hungarian? German? British? Dutch? Are we of a difference race of men and women? The fact that a black man and a woman are contesting for the chance to be President of the United States ought to give us hope. That seems to be dwindling. What a shame.