The continued nomination fight between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and, more importantly, it’s bitterness, have started to have an impact and it’s not looking good for the Democratic Party.
First, a new Gallup poll reflects the fact that large numbers of supporters of both candidates would vote for McCain before they’d vote for the other Democratic candidate:
PRINCETON, NJ — A sizable proportion of Democrats would vote for John McCain next November if he is matched against the candidate they do not support for the Democratic nomination. This is particularly true for Hillary Clinton supporters, more than a quarter of whom currently say they would vote for McCain if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee.
Here’s the chart just to make it clear:
The bitterness is only going to increase as the race goes on, so I would expect these numbers to rise.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Things will only get more hectic when a little-noticed interview on NY1 channel’s “INSIDE CITY HALL” on Tues March 25, 2008 reaches national attention. A prominent political legend, Percy Sutton, indicated that he had used his political influence to personaly grease the skids to get Obama into Harvard Law, at the request of a lawyer named “Kahlid” who was at the time representing an apparently oil-rich overseas potentate.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Is this for real? Has anyone sent this to the big boys?
March 26th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Yes, it’s for real. But the host, Dominick Carter, who is usually a pretty sharp and savy journalist, seemed not to grasp the enormity of what Mr. Sutton had just told him. So no follow-up questions.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:26 am
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