Letters to the Editor
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@juliebird
Looks like it might be Rush Limbaugh's doing, though... see post below.
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ShawnWM
"You have a white person that has a long history and commitments to policies which benefit the poor -which like it or not affects a disproportionate number of blacks."
Welfare reform?
Bankruptcy reform?
NAFTA?
The Iraq War?
Yes, Bill and Hillary Clinton - friends of the working class.
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@siebecker
"I have to wonder just how many "minions" Rush Limbaugh actually has and if they are actually smart enough to follow his instructions without fucking them up."
I heard somewhere (Air America?) that some dittoheads were upset because they didn't realize that by re-registering as Democrats, they wouldn't be able to vote in the down-ticket Repub primaries.
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Obamas Strategy
Obama registers new voters as part of his strategy in each state. I work in a suburban county here in Pa for him. Without working up a sweat we crushed the budget numbers for both switched and new registrations. Clinton may win here but the registrations are sort of stealth and she wont win by any double digit. Which means another nail in the Clinton coffin.
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boom in Democrat voters
I hope Obama is not so impressed with his-self to think he has created this movement alone. Hillary Clinton supporters have also done so. The reason is because republicans (George Bush and Cheney) have made such a mess of this country a Republican cannot win no matter.
I hope Michigan and Florida can come together to re-vote and seat those delegates which were stripped by the DNC for moving up a primary. Considering FL has been a bone of contention over voting in the past few elections, all the more reason to reward all those who came out to vote hoping their vote would count. I hope Howard Dean recognizes disenfranchising voters in two states is what has caused this mess. Let's count the two and give the majority to the candidate who won. Enough, Howard, Democrats are voting in numbers we have never seen.
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boom in Democrat voters
I hope Obama is not so impressed with his-self to think he has created this movement alone. Hillary Clinton supporters have also done so. The reason is because republicans (George Bush and Cheney) have made such a mess of this country a Republican cannot win no matter.
I hope Michigan and Florida can come together to re-vote and seat those delegates which were stripped by the DNC for moving up a primary. Considering FL has been a bone of contention over voting in the past few elections, all the more reason to reward all those who came out to vote hoping their vote would count. I hope Howard Dean recognizes disenfranchising voters in two states is what has caused this mess. Let's count the two and give the majority to the candidate who won. Enough, Howard, Democrats are voting in numbers we have never seen.
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The BS is Flowing Today
All this talk about Obama/Clinton having no chance against McCain is purely delusional.
Show me one area of substantive policy where McCain significantly deviates from George W. Bush, one of the worst and least popular presidents of all time. Plus the fact that McCain has flopped on all of his "maverick" positions and is now busy felching the right-wing corpus. Plus the fact that he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to economic policy. Plus the fact that he can't tell Sunni from Shiite and seems eager to wage more war, not less. Plus the fact that he's solicited endorsements from extremist religious leaders who have made statements much worse than those by Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Any edge McCain may currently have (which I seriously doubt) is due to the fact that NOONE IS PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO HIM. Any competent campaign should be able to expose all these weaknesses. My money is on Obama.
Yes, a percentage of new registrations may be from nefarious republicans, but I believe most of them are by people who are hurting, both socially and economically, and see John McCain as George Bush's 3rd term.
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@heyjude
No, according to Rossemeir, Koppelman, the LA Times, and Politico (and, oh yeah, the Obama campaign) the Obama campaign is courting non-Democrats.
A non-Democrat is:
1. someone who has never voted at all
or
2. someone who has voted for the other party.
Obama is taking both kinds.
(Unless you are saying Obama is really Rush Limbaugh? I mean, Obama's not my first choice, but please, he may well be the Democratic candidate, and I'd like to vote for him. Keep it clean!)
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Besides
the record turnout of Democratic-voting persons, both Obama and HRC are raking in record campaign donations.
Which is why I really can't buy the whole "Trojan horse Republican" hysteria.
Republicans parting with their hard-earned cash and forking it over to the opposition? To trick them? Nope. Not buying it.
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shawnie does no brainers
which side of your butt is breaded, white boy? the whole "Big Blow Job Bill" was the first black president is horsehockey. He was the last competent republikan president. As a blow job specialist, he first blew health care, then the house and the senate. He had a bj coming by his way of reckoning. Hillary is done, and lacks the perception or the grace to know it. Read you three by five cards, shawnie boy, and don't spill your butt lite on your keyboard.
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What, Exactly, Does This "Prove"?
There is reliable information available showing that, in Ohio and Texas, Republicans "crossed over" and voted as Democrats-for-a-day. The fact that they are registering as Democrats in Pennsylvania proves only that they plan to vote in the upcoming (closed) primary. In Ohio and Texas (open primaries), Republicans also crossed over, but there is nothing nefarious about this (e.g., voting for HRC so they can "defeat" her in November).
In Ohio, for example, approximately 9 percent of the Democratic vote came from Republicans:
..."[They] split their votes, 49 percent going to Clinton and the same percentage to Obama. Since Clinton received 1.208 million votes in that state, that means about 8 percent of her votes came from Republicans. On the other hand, about 10 percent of Obama's 979,000 votes in that state were from Republicans." ...
Texas shows a slightly different story:
..."Republican pollster Mike Baselice has said that a 9 percent to 15 percent crossover vote is typical in that state. That’s what exit polls showed there: Only 9 percent of those who voted on Democratic ballots identified themselves as Republicans. But they didn’t seem to follow Limbaugh’s prescription. According to the exit polls, Republicans preferred Obama over Clinton, 53 percent to 46 percent. Our calculations show that, as in Ohio, about 8 percent of Clinton's votes in Texas came from Republicans; for Obama, the figure was about 10 percent." ...
SOURCE: http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/ did_10_percent_of_hillarys_votes_come.html