Reply #11: Get real. Obama has benefitted from one time crossover GOP anti-Hillary votes in Red States. [View All]

[McCamy Taylor]

These anti-Hillary votes are not going to switch parties and vote Democratic in the general. They vote for Obama in the Democratic primary for two reasons.

1. The hate Hillary and want to see her humiliated

2. Karl Rove, Pat Buchanan and others in the conservative press have been writing for months about how they want to see Obama as the Democratic nominee. They have already laid out their strategy and the corporate media Big Lies are already incubating in the right wing internet (go look them up yourself, they are not pretty). There is a tradition within the Republican Party of crossing over in the primary to spoil the Democratic Primary by voting for the candidate of the Republican's choice. Since the GOP lineup is so unappealing, this year it is particularly easy for Republicans to ignore their own primaries and head to a Democratic one instead.

Obama has been courting these voters with his "Reagan" comment and his "Harry and Louise II" ads. While some of the Independents will stick with him, the long term Republicans will either sit out the fall election or vote Republican this fall. The GOP machine is going to make it very clear that Obama is a flaming liberal with nothing Reaganesque about him.

If Obama promises that he is going to deliver a bunch of GOP votes, he is getting bum political advise. The GOP is offering a moderate candidate, one that has their own liberal wing well covered. Where in the Republican Party does Obama expect to steal the votes from? The disaffected right wing?

In the end, Obama needs Hillary's voters, the Democratic base and some Independents. Right now, he is using one time anti-Hillary Republican cross over voters to make up for the fact that she has more of the base.