<p>Vastly more Democrats than Republicans voted yesterday;
Democratic votes for Clinton and Obama: 14,622,822 (63.6%)
Republican votes for McCain, Romney and Huckabee: 8,370,022 (36.4%)</p>
<p>Put another way, the Clinton/Obama race drew 76% more voters than the McCain/Romney/Huckabee race.</p>
<p>I wonder what would galvanize the Republican faithful more: The prospect of Billary’s return to the White House, or that of Barack Obama occupying the Oval Office? I think once the dust settles from the Democratic Convention, the sobering reality of either scenario will smack stalwart Republicans square in the face, and even McCain will start to look like a native son. But, which would they view to be the worse case scenario?</p>
<p>Rove was on fox news last night saying that this happened to the dems in 04. He said (And I’m taking his word for it, he’s one of the smartest men when it comes to winning elections) that going against Clinton would help BUT the main responsibility fell on McCain in trying to excite the party and have them rally around him. He said he expects it to happen and be a very close election…</p>
<p>The popular vote count doesn’t really matter. Most of these primaries and caucuses were closed…so, you couldn’t really have cross votes.</p>
<p>How many Americans will be willing to vote for a woman or an African American? A lot of the votes were conducted by caucuses…so it was open, same with the public polling and this could have swayed constituents…however, there are a lot of constituents across America that will have a lot of trouble voting for a woman or African American when the alternative is a white man…It sounds racist, but there’s no denying predjudices still largely exist in our society.</p>
<p>The biggest states yesterday – New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey – all have pretty solid Democratic majorities by registration. And in California the Democratic primary was open (i.e., people registered as independents could vote in it), while the Republican primary was closed. Plus, on a state-by-state basis relatively few of the Republican primaries looked close, while the Democratic primaries were seen as tossups almost everywhere but New York, Illinois, and some small states. So I don’t think anyone can read much into the party-to-party vote comparisons.</p>
<p>I think it will be much closer than we thought 3 months ago. They will pin Obama down to some specifics and that will hurt him. Pie in the sky sounds nice but it’s not real. Hill has so many bags she could never afford to fly United.</p>
<p>Read about Anwar Sadat, a president of Egypt after Abdul Nasser, and how Sadat made the first response to initiate cease-fire with Israel after years of war. Sadat broke with all the previous advice in his country and went to visit Jerusalem, to talk with his “enemies.” Before that, NO leader of an Arab nation ever ventured into the Modern State of Israel to talk, meet, or anything…but Sadat addressed the Knesset (legislature). Remarkable. Egypt and ISrael were the first to declare peace at their borders. Later came Jordan, and we’re still waiting for a few more to add to that list.</p>
<p>Before that, Sadat wrote in an autobiography how he went on some kind of personal retreat alone, simply to listen to his own thoughts about what to do that hadn’t yet been tried. </p>
<p>Of course, later he paid the greatest price (was assasinated within his own country by extremists). But he is credited for thinking outside of old patterns, and he alone DID achieve the first peace between a hostile Arab nation to Israel. </p>
<p>Talking to one’s “enemies” is a time-honored attribute of a genuine leader.</p>
<p>^ Are you proposing that we should have a summit in the tribal areas of Pakistan with Osama?</p>
<p>Rhetorical BS like this is OK for people who an educated in math, engineering and areas like that and who in there daily lives dont deal with real people. However, this type of BS is considered juvenile among people who are educated and deal with human and real world problems.</p>
<p>Well, Obama has not. He has proposed. to howls of outrage from certain quarters, that if it were known than Osama was in Pakistan and if Pakistan refused to cooperate, we should unilaterally go after Osama.<br>
Not all criminals are our enemies and not all our “enemies” are criminals.</p>