Cutting Your Nose to Spite Your Face
In a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Sunday night, 47 percent of those questioned are backing Obama with an equal amount supporting the Arizona senator.
“This looks like a step backward for Obama, who had a 51 to 44 percent advantage last month,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
“Even last week, just before his choice of Joe Biden as his running mate became known, most polls tended to show Obama with a single-digit advantage over McCain,” adds Holland.
So what’s the difference now?
It may be supporters of Hillary Clinton, who still would prefer the Senator from New York as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.
Sixty-six percent of Clinton supporters, registered Democrats who want Clinton as the nominee, are now backing Obama. That’s down from 75 percent in the end of June. Twenty-seven percent of them now say they’ll support McCain, up from 16 percent in late June.
Emphasis added. Do the math. Twenty-seven percent out of 18 million voters is about 4.86 million. That won't be enough to make Obama lose California, New York, or any of the other large or deep-blue states. But it'll make a big difference in many of the battleground states out there.
And for what? Do you really want to risk a McCain presidency?
Think about the right to choose. Right now, one judge will make the difference between whether Roe is upheld as the law of the land or whether it's struck down. The ages of four of these justices lie between 69 and 88 years of age. It's not unthinkable that one or more of them will either die or retire over the next four years.
What will McCain do? Here's a hint:
John McCain believes Roe v. Wade is a flawed decision that must be overturned, and as president he will nominate judges who understand that courts should not be in the business of legislating from the bench.
Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, returning the abortion question to the individual states. The difficult issue of abortion should not be decided by judicial fiat.
However, the reversal of Roe v. Wade represents only one step in the long path toward ending abortion. Once the question is returned to the states, the fight for life will be one of courage and compassion - the courage of a pregnant mother to bring her child into the world and the compassion of civil society to meet her needs and those of her newborn baby.
Emphasis added. Do you really want to risk that? But wait, there's more:
Nuclear Power: Nuclear power is a proven, reliable, zero-emission source of energy, and it is time to recommit to advancing our use of nuclear power. The U.S. has not started construction on a new nuclear power plant in over 30 years. Currently, nuclear power provides 20 percent of our overall energy portfolio. Other countries such as China, India and Russia are looking to increase the role of nuclear power in their energy portfolio and the U.S. should not just look to maintain, but increase its own use. John McCain will put our country on track to construct 45 new nuclear power plants by 2030 with the ultimate goal of eventually constructing 100 new plants.Do you want to support costly, ineffective, and unproven sources of energy and risk increasing the environmental harm to your children?
Coal: John McCain will commit $2 billion annually to advancing clean coal technologies. Coal produces the majority of our electricity today. Some believe that marketing viable clean coal technologies could be over 15 years away. John McCain believes that this is too long to wait, and we need to commit significant federal resources to the science, research and development that advance this critical technology. Once commercialized, the U.S. can then export these technologies to countries like China that are committed to using their coal - creating new American jobs and allowing the U.S. to play a greater role in the international green economy.
As president, John McCain will strongly support funding for promising research programs, including amniotic fluid and adult stem cell research and other types of scientific study that do not involve the use of human embryos.Emphasis added. Is that the future you want for your country?
If you do, you're either a Republican, or you're blinded by disappointment.
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For the last two evenings I've seen the DNC leadership prove that they (at least publicly, the Democratic Party, is the party of inclusion.
No doubt some Clinton supporters(that would ironically be a good number of the real life "Sex and the City" style PUMA types, and the "hard-working" Larry the Cable Guy types) would rather see McCain win than support a Black - or even half Black candidate.
Having said that, I can say that tonight the United States will decide for sure, if it is the country of "opportunity for all."
Obama may or may not win, but if one is honest about how things have gone over that last eight years, they would vote to OPPOSE McCain.
Voting against Obama as a registered Democrat, at this juncture is really just affirming one's own racism.
Marc, I have to disagree with you. Voting against Obama for many of these women boils down to identity politics - ironically, the same reason why many African Americans voted for Obama. I have female friends, who I know are about as racist as Barney (the purple dinosaur), who are contemplating not voting at all because they believed Hillary should have been the nominee.
Are there people who will vote for McCain because Obama is black - or mulato if you want to be more accurate? Yes.
Are there people who will vote for Obama because he is black/mulato? Yes (which by the way, is just as racist as voting against him for that reason).
But when it comes to the women, there's a sense that Hillary got "passed over" and that hit them way too close to home.
El Loco, you do have a point.
I just feel that the sense of entitlement that she had is what caused her not to campaign effectively until she was loosing to someone who consistently talked about the people and their monetary issues.
Most Black men and women would have voted for Clinton over Obama hands down, simply because "he can't win" was the prevailing sentiment. I know. It was how I felt. She had my vote lock, stock, and barrel... until I listened to him.
We also voted for him because the Iowans proved that we would not be voting alone.
Hillary too, believed that he couldn't win, and tried to cakewalk to a coronation.
She could have won.
She would have won.
Obama tapped into all those real issues that Michael Moore makes films about, and gets ridiculed for examining.
So to me, the idea that she was "passed over" intimates that Obama did nothing to earn the votes that he got. Which simply isn't true. He actually campaigned the entire time.
She didn't campaign until she was loosing.
Sadly (and I mean this with all my heart, because I was waiting for her to run for five years), she took her nomination for granted, and didn't think anyone could beat her own celebrity status. And she was willing to endorse the Republican over another Democrat. That action alone proved to me that she wanted to win the election more than she wanted to fix the nation's problems.
She forgot that the Presidency is a civil service job attained by election, not promotion, and the public interest is more important than her career or personal legacy...no matter how historically significant.
If she had won the nomination, I would gamble that 99 percent of that "90 percent of the Black vote" that went to Obama, would have voted for her in the general election...without forming PUMA groups either.
It is in that sense that I assert any registered Democrat that still refuses to vote for Obama, but instead intends to vote for McCain (and his policies, despite his VP choice) is asserting their racism - even if it is unconscious.
It also (to me) insults all of the other great women politicians (Nancy Pelosi for one) by suggesting that Clinton is the world’s only hope for an American woman President.
Marc
Please stop playing the race card, we are tired of that. I know many Democrates who are not planning to vote for Obama and they have good reasons, including his light experience, lack of distinction as a Senator, and his puzzling relationship to the detestable Reverend Wright. You are insulting America by implying that it is racist to resist the coronation of Obama.
Do you even believe in elections or democracy?
Nick, I had two points. Acknowledging that specific demographics tended to state that they would not vote for Obama because Clinton did win isn't "playing" anything.
Seriously, if I were “playing” I would have at least asked to cut the cards before accepting the hand I’ve been dealt.
It's an observation based on the historical evidence of the election thus far. It's noting that their shared attitude toward Obama's initial candidacy, as well as the outcome of the primaries probably mirrors that they tend to have little interaction with minorities in their day to day lives other than a few necessary business transactions.
Should they have more? Maybe. Maybe not. They just shouldn't let that keep them for voting for the one of the two candidates that has their best interest in mind.
If he wins, would you still consider his election a coronation as well, despite the outcome of the Electoral College?
He ousted a presumed frontrunner in Chicago prior to this election.
He campaigns from beginning to end.
Clinton didn't.
He ran.
He won.
He's THE Democrat in our most important race yet.
I don't think the entire DNC loves him. I don't think that the PUMAs should love him either.
They should just act like Democrats.
My second point is that McCain found a choice that says, "I'll pick the least sympathetic woman to your Liberal feminist ideals I can find, because I know you Democrats and you are just voting affirmative action over gender, so here’s a test of YOUR ideals, you disingenuous Liberals."
He's mocking us - the whole country.