I’m an Obama supporter who will vote for Clinton if she’s the nominee.
I favor Clinton a bit, but would be glad to vote for Obama. Both of them on the ticket? Great!
(How many who’ve answered here are really Republicans who are expressing their hatred for The Evul Klintoons?)
I will be voting for the Democratic party candidate. If it is Clinton, I’ll hold my nose and vote for her instead of for my man Obama.
I used to say I was going to vote Dem no matter who. But I prefer Hillary.
But after the last couple few months reading the hate-filled vitriol against Hillary on these boards about how supposed Dems will stay home or vote McCain if Hillary gets the nomination I’m kind of thinking of doing the same thing if Obama gets the nom, but not for the same reasons. I’m just nervous about electing a guy who’ll ride into office on a wave of his followers’ vitriolic hatred.
If Obama gets the nom, he’s going to have to convince me he’s somehow distanced himself from his petulant, vindictive hate-filled followers who would actually stay home or childishly vote opposite out of spite.
I’d definitely vote for Clinton rather than McCain if Obama doesn’t get the nomination. In the unlikely event that he runs as Clinton’s VP, so much the better. I’m with zuma and ArchiveGuy; if another conservative president gets control of the Supreme Court’s pearly gates, the results would be disastrous. If the SCOTUS turns that conservative, I may not be able to stand being an American.
Oh yeah that’s a mature response. Does it occur to you that some people just don’t think she’s makes the best candidate? Before the primary started I stated that I wouldn’t support her because I thought running such a divisive person would be foolhardy. Most of the arguments I hear in support for basically boil down to ‘well she’s not republican, so hold your nose and vote for her anyway” which to me sounds like Bush/Kerry redux. You do realize how well that worked out last time?
Oh come on, it is a few hotheads on the board. I prefer Obama to Clinton by quite a bit, but in the end, I would have to vote for Clinton as 4-8 more years of Republicans will hurt this country too much. I say this as someone who actually likes McCain and would have happily voted for him in 2000 over Gore.
Don’t let the more extreme Obama supporters influence what you know is the right thing to do.
Jim
I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life (first election in 1972).
I prefer Hillary, but I believe the nominee is going to be Obama, and I’ll be very happy to vote for him in November.
Well as I said, my opinion is based on what I see & read here. Threads like “Why does Hillary hate America?” don’t do much to impress me with Obama followers.
As things progress, I’m sure I’ll increasingly ignore the boards, or at least try to.
Republicans are no better. They just got stuck with a candidate they loath much earlier in the year, that’s all.
There’s 36% chance I’ll vote 3rd party, if the two mainstream parties don’t stop chuckling away while they’re painting targets on their toes.
That is probably the best thing to do. The anti-Hillary stuff from some is ridiculous. I really don’t like her, but on the simple litmus test of, “What will the supreme court look like if McCain wins?” I have to vote for her anyway. I would think for Dems that dislike Obama (and his more ardent followers) he would pass the same litmus test.
This actually is a good point.
I may end up voting for her only because of the Supreme Court issue.
Yeah, that is a good reality snap-back. I guess I’m just not real proud of some of my fellow Dems willing to not even vote if they don’t get their way.
You realize, of course, that a lot of the anti-Hillary, pro-Barack sentiment is not from Dems at all.
Obama first, but Clinton if she’s the nominee.
Upon consideration, I agree it is critical to get a president into the Whitehouse who will nominate progressive judicial candidates into the courts, Supreme Court especially.
So, Hillary Clinton will get my vote (if not my support during the primaries.)
But please understand one very important thing: those of us who are Democrats and Obama supporters are reluctant to support Clinton not because we are upset about possibly of not getting our way*, because we feel strongly that Clinton is such an inferior candidate to Obama by comparison. My negative feelings about how she has run her campaign are quite sincere; I do not have the feeling that she could either win the presidency or do a good job if she did.
But she would nominate progressive justices.
(*Saying so is nothing more than a straw-man argument.)
I was so divided between the two candidates that I ended up skipping the primary completely. I figured if I actually couldn’t decide then I shouldn’t take part of a vote away from someone who could.
With that said, I slightly prefer Hillary’s positions, but think that Obama is more electable, so I’m currently leaning his way. The electability quibble is directly related to the virulent hatred that this thread is a perfect example of. I’ve honestly never understood it, but I’ve always known that it’s widespread.
I don’t think it’s a straw man unless I’m making up a position which hasn’t been stated, and people have said if Obama loses (i.e. Hillary wins) they won’t vote.
I think I would go with McCain over Clinton. McCain will have to scew up big time to make her look like the better option.
Maybe I’ll vote for Nader.
If Clinton wins fair and square, I’ll vote for her, but I won’t be thrilled. If she pulls any dirty tricks to get the nomination, I probably won’t vote for prez. There is no way on God’s green earth that Clinton would beat McCain in North Carolina, so it’s not as though my vote for her would make a difference.