Clinton "supporters" will back the GOP nominee.

many Clinton supporters will vote for McCain. Even the ones who are currently saying they will still have several months to get over it.

I seem to recall that when John Edwards dropped out, everyone was extra nice to him and his supporters.  Both Clinton and Obama wanted his people on their side, of course.

Now McCain wants to make a play for disaffected Clinton supporters; it's not like Dean in 2004, because there's no chance a Dean supporter would consider Bush over Kerry.

In the end, I think that cooler heads will prevail, and Obama's consitency and genuine good will should win back most of Clinton's people.  Clinton is going to have to help, though, because she really did string her team along into expecting a win beyond mathmatical probability.

The Clinton support infrastructure had ties to republican support - you can find out easily enough, by looking at campaign records. There were several openly republican clinton supporters who were backing her in an open primary, to make sure McCain didn't have to face Obama in a general election. And Bill Clinton campaigned amongst republicans, as well.

that is a damning statement indeed.  I would think that there were republicans who backed the Clintons because they preferred them over Obama OR McCain.

and Obama had that nasty piece of work that called BC's comments McCarthism - and that piece of work was a republican.

Or is it only Obama who gets republicans because they believe in him?  

give me an f'ing break.  Your diary is a piece of crap.  More registered, self-identified DEMOCRATS voted for Hillary.  

I think that many Clinton supporters may sit the election out as far as the Presidential race, but I doubt if ANY will vote for John McCain.

I can't help but wonder if the people who are trying to tar us with this brush are part of an organized disinformation campaign.

It IS patriotic to want the best possible candidate for your country.

It is NOT patriotic to want ill for your country out of spite.

Best to do what you can to get an acceptable situation you can vote FOR.

If you want, you can also write-in candidates.

who vote for McCain will be negligible, imo. I just don't see it happening.

Since Hillary has expressly requested that her supporters vote DO NOT write in her name and DO NOT vote for McCain, but rather DO vote for Barack Obama, those who do not never really supported her at all.

There are die-hard Obama fans on this site that were once bush supporters.

In every election each party has ~15% of its voters cross over. We are less then a week after the last highly charged candidates dropped out and we have hit 19% as a ceiling?  Yeah, no worries. The Republicans have had months to coalesce around their nominee and pull in 83%

"In the south, they were praying for Hillary. She sparks outrage amongst the conservative base".

I am sure Obama is going to play very well in the South (sort of like the Sheriff in "Blazing Saddles")

The 527s haven't gone to work on Obama yet. Just wait. Why would they waste their money five months out?

Red states will stay red.  Blue states will stay blue.

4-5 states actually in play. Will the "new" Electoral Map prevail?
I don't think so. But I could be wrong.

I have always respected McCain, mostly for his military service, which almost everybody lacks these days.  It shows real courage. Real guts.

He is the only Republican who can get Independent votes in November. And maybe Independent-leaning Democrats who really REALLY preferred Hillary (or Dodd, or Biden, but are having a hard time with Obama).

So do I vote for the guy I respect but don't agree (mostly) with? Or the guy I (mostly) agree with but don't respect? Hard to say what people are going to do.

I WILL be voting for Democrats in the down-ticket races.

Just might leave the Presidential box blank.

In fact the Clinton faction has deeper roots in the Party than many of the newbies supporting Obama. That is not a criticism but a fact. These people are so committed to this Party that I suspect that it will be very slim pickings for McCain, the phony maverick.

as he's a moderate, believes in public service, and shares some of my values.   Green party is running an African-American woman (Cynthia McKinney) and I will be looking closely at her as well.   One thing for sure is that I wouldn't vote for Obama if he were the last Democrat on earth.  

If any pro-Obama fearmongers want to challenge me on Iraq or Roe v. Wade, read this:   1) Irag is getting better, just as anyone with any knowledge of electoral history KNEW it would do during the summer months preceding a Presidential election (Bush has the power to make it better and making it better helps the Rep candidate);  2) More kids die in inner-city violence right here at home, every YEAR, than have died in 5 years of Iraq.  What's the Obamessiah planning to do about that?  Chicago had one of the highest crime rates in the nation throughout Obama's wonderful terms in State and U.S. Senate.

On Roe v. Wade:  1) O'Connor, a Reagan appointee was a staunch defender of Roe:  2) Roe is established law and unlikely to be overturned; 3) RU232 and other morning after drugs are making abortion increasingly unnecessary.

Obamabots and in-the-tank admins of this site, please refrain from flaming me and yanking my comment offline (as you did a few minutes ago with my perfectly-reasonable post about Alice Palmer and Obama's violation of the voting rights act).   I know it is exceeding difficult for you folks to hear the truth, but in this case my comment is given in answer to a question posed by the actual diary.

This doesn't look helpful.

I predict that there will be a lower than normal number of crossovers when the votes are counted. This isn't any old year, this is an election coming on the heels of 8 years of Bush.

This is the type of diary that DOES NOT help anyone.

Obama's goal is to unite the party. 90% of Obama's supporters goal is to unite the party.

Then, you have the 10% of Obama supporters like this diarist who are going the OPPOSITE direction.

They are a Liability to Obama.

WTF do you expect. After a hardfought year long race, 100% of Clinton supporters would sing & dance for Obama in a matter of 1 week.

And you insult any democrat who have ever voted for a Republican.

Why don't you insult the Republicans voters who plan to vote for Obama in November ??

What a STUPID Diary.

I can remember when everyone was saying we have two great candidates and either one would be better than McBush.  What happened to all that happiness with our candidates?  I was a JRE supporter, but I got over it when he lost, and I was mad and saying all kinds of crazy stuff, like voting for Nader.  Well it didn't last because in the end I am a yellow dog democrat.  Anyone who is a real democrat would never vote for McBush, McSame, or McLame.

You have to wonder what the motivation is of the bozo who wrote this diary. Is he a paranioic Obama supporter who thinks the world his plotting to "get" his man or is it simply a Republican troll trying to stir up trouble. In either case it's totally asinine.

I'm a Hillary supporter and will vote McCain if she isn't on the ticket.  Hillary 2012!!!!!

In every election, a small minority of voters from one party cross over to vote for the other.  Republicans voted for Kerry in 2004; Democrats voted for Bush.

This always happen.

The idea that a majority, or even a significant minority, of Clinton's strongest supporters would rather see McCain in the White House than Obama is absolutely absurd.  Those supporters are solid Democrats, with solid Democratic values.  They know McCain does not share the values.

Even if they are not attracted to Obama's personality, even if they have concerns about his electability, even if they take issue with his policies -- they still know that Obama is much closer to them than McCain.

A handful of narcissistic whiners does not a movement make.  

I've been as staunch a Clinton supporter as anyone else, but I am truly embarrassed by any self-identified Clinton "supporter" who would even consider voting for McCain, much less announcing it on a website or on TV.

It seems this site will soon become just the the Orange site most of us left months ago.

"The Daily Obama" or something like that.  

Probably most of the Hillary supporters will leave the site and leave you guys to echo each other.

There will be plenty of hissy-fit temper tantrum dead enders that won't vote for Obama, despite Clinton's own enthusiastic support for her party's nominee.  Whatever, Obama was tied with McCain while Hillary was in the last delusional throes of her campaign and the alegres of the world were in full meldown.  If even half of the Clinton supporters that were saying at the time that they wouldn't vote for Obama (the reasonable half who were just caught up in the emotions of the primary but who actually LISTEN to Hillary...) come back into the tent, a tie turns into a 5-10 point blow out.

Let the children have their temper tantrum.  It's not going to make any difference.

Writing a diary trashing Clinton supporters at this point is not helping.

I've had heated differences with them in the past, but there's a big difference between Hillary supporters at places like MyDD and those at places like No Quarter.

i was at hillary's last primary night speech in new york. unfortunately, i was in an overflow room since  (even after 2 hours in line) the main hall was already filled up. hillary and chelsea were kind enough to meet and greet people in the overflow room after her speech. while shaking hands and signing autographs, a band of obama supporters decided to  start chanting obama's name and slogans. it was ugly. petty. tasteless. hillary and chelsea soldiered on and the room tried to drown out their chants with hillary chants.

now, it would be unfair to link obama to these clowns. however, i get the sense that a a large portion of his 'new voters' that he likes to brag about are these type of idiots. and they helped to decide the nominee, especially through the caucuses.

and party unity is left to folks like me? i'm sorry, but whatever i decide to do on election day- i will not be guilted into voting for obama. frankly, i'd much rather write her name in or stay home to protest the biased media coverage and these goons.

McCain is not too bad. He is a moderate to liberal republican. He has been around for a long time and most of us high information types know him pretty well. We are not going to be scare-mongered into believing he is just a clone of Bush. That is just not true and anyone who says so is an idiot.

With Obama, at first the only things I knew of him what what he wanted us to know from his speaches and from his books. I loved the guy.

Then I found out the part of his background he kept silent about: Rezko, Wright, Ayers. Then I watched him smear the Clintons as racists. Then I saw him embrace Republican talking points.

I will not be voting for Obama. I am old enough to know a con man when I see a con man. Thank god the campaign was long enough that I learned who Obama is before I cast a ballot for him.