...and you might have added: 'If you want the lunatic fringe of right-wing religiosity to continue influencing every politicial decision in this country, vote for Senator McCain.'

Voting for the other side just because your favorite candidate didn't win the nomination is the most stupid and childish response I have ever heard of. And I thought these people were against sexism. Changing your vote simply because of the gender of the candidate is about as sexist as you can get!!

Ronni,

I suppose there are some "sore losers" who will vote for McCain because Hillary is not the nominee, but I honestly feel they are few and far between.

Just listen to the Republicans today.You would think Hillary was their candidate. According to them she is so wonderful, would have been the best choice and they can't understand why Obama was chosen over her.

Can you say "Swiftboat"? We are being taken for a ride by Rove and Co. They are trying to stir up as much animosity as they can between the Obama and Hillary camps. Please don't fall for it. Most Hillary voters are intelligent and politically savvy and will NEVER vote for McCain.

I think most of those letters you asked us to read from Hillary supporters who claimed they were voting for McCain were written in a Republican "boiler room".

You can say what you want about Hillary fans but I don't think you can say they are DUMB. Voting for anyone but Barack Obama would be dumb.........

Yesterdays poll said that 30@% of Hillary's supporters would vote for McCain. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot or 'biting off your nose to spite your face.'

Can't those sore losers see that they are every bit as radical as those on the far right that they disdain?

I do think that after they get their day in the sun at the convention they will settle down and see the error of their ways. I would hate to think that we have a 'left' as well as a 'right' American Taliban.

If any serious number of Hillary's past supporters vote for McCain (which I seriously doubt), it will be because their vote for Hillary was more a protest against the nomination of a guy they didn't think right to be President than a vote for a woman they did like.

I'm not buying that there are really very many of them. Most of the vocal ones I suspect of being "concern trolls" -- McCain supporters dishonestly using the hook of Hillary's loss to intervene in a conversation going on among people on the other side.

A recent poll shows 76 percent of Clinton voters moving, happily, to Obama. Eighteen percent like McCain.

I'm sure it will be hard for Obama to reach this remaining group. Most of us vote at least in part on the basis of a swirl of impressions and emotions which we like to describe as rational issue choices. The issue choices are real, and we make them. But less rational impressions also influence us and for some people who may well get counted as these reluctant Hillary supporters, Obama's very presence is like fingernails scratching on a blackboard. (Bet I can use that metaphor here -- it is dying in our school rooms I think. :-)

I experience McCain similarly from my side of the fence -- why is that unstable crazyman doing pretending he could be President? Then I go out and find the evidence for my feelings. Ronni's list is a superb catalogue of reasons and I'll take all of them.

Most of the real Hillary supporters will come around. The others were not so much supporters as lesser evil voters whose rationale we don't understand. They'll do what they do.

I am sure the Obama campaign has a strategy for assembling majorities where he needs them. It may not work, but it will be smart and coherent.

Thanks for nailing the irrational spoiled-sport ridiculous turncoat bellowing of the "If it's not Hillary then I'm not a Democrat anymore" faction. They're nuts and shameful, to boot.

I use to think that people who reelected George W. four years ago were morons or simply the fatcats who benefited from his reactionary policies. But the Hillary supporters who intend to vote for McCain are even bigger morons.

love your blog. Couldn't disagree with you more about McCain however. Die hard independent here who has voted conservatively for the last 30 years.

I'm not so sure how I like being characterized as the "lunatic fringe".

Guess we all see the world through different prisms.

Nice to see (almost) all of us on the same page! I'm with your comments and Zoe's....pray and work and pray some more, because I think this is really the last chance we'll get to re-raise America's good name in the world as a true leadership factor. Insist on the facts, and counteract the hateful political Karl Rove tactics at every turn!

Excellent list, Ronni! Am shocked when I hear any voter say they'll vote for other than Obama, or not vote at all, as I've witnessed our government's disasterous administration these past years.

I just don't know how much more clear the choices can be. How can there be even a hint of a question in anyone's mind about the candidate to support? How petty, junior highish, to withhold a vote because HC wasn't selected. Initially she was my first choice, too, but the stakes are so much higher than any one individual.

Frankly, the next President isn't going to be able to "fix" much of anything immediately since there's been such a mess created that will take many years to correct. There will also have to be a change in the guard of those in congressional offices to those able to act, so meaningful legislative can be passed. But we also need an administration that can set a positive tone, be unafraid to tell the truth, one that is committed to real change and not just mouthing the words of change while dedicated to continuing the current destructive status quo.

I believe this to be the most significant election in my lifetime. The very form of government and freedoms I value are at stake. I want my children, their children and future generations to live in our country with the guarantees of our constitution and Bill of Rights as intended.

Again, as in the previous two elections, every attempt is being and will be made to divide the voters with emotional matters that have no business being legislated in the first place. I can only hope voters have finally recognized how poorly our country has been governed when they elected to office candidates for all the wrong reasons these previous two elections. I can only hope they can see through the well-disguised but transparent efforts to suck them into focusing on emotionally-loaded issues other than those vital to salvaging our nation and its freedoms.

We VOTERS NEED TO STAY ON MESSAGE and re-direct our candidates when they and others attempt to distract us.

We need to be holding the candidates feet to the fire, demanding they discuss the real issues needing our attention including but not limited to: health care, social security, our country's deteriorating infrastructure, the U.S.'s dangerous financial state, the war(s) as always, environmental concerns, regaining the world's respect and these are just a few issues of concern.

Liberal predictions of doom always make me smile. Hearing bleeding hearts wail is music to ears of we conservatives.

Totally agree. I can't believe some people are STILL doing this song and dance. Especially from a feminist perspective: yeah, Obama's said some dicey things wrt reproductive rights; have you seen McCain's record as well as Obama's? "by their deeds you will know them."

"• If your salary is meeting your needs, or your children and grandchildren don’t need future wage increases, vote for Senator McCain."

For the past 3 years at work I watched in disbelief, then disgust, at the distribution of company profits among the workforce -- the top earners (over $200,000 a year) were quite happy after every raise and bonus. At my level -- roughly $60k -- I had a 6% pay cut. But I couldn't complain once I found out what happened to the administrative assistants -- 11% pay cuts on a compensation (less than $40K) that was already not enough to afford a decent lifestyle. And this was happening at the tail end of a white-hot, extremely successful economic expansion. This one issue should have at least 80% of Americans voting Democrat -- otherwise they are voting themselves into poverty (if not already there). I have no doubt that McCain would do absolutely nothing for the middle class. I am a former Hillary supporter who became an Obama supporter the instant I realized he would be the Democrat's candidate.

It will be interesting to see if Obama will go back on crack or if Biden will continue to plagerize.