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As a surprise turn of events the McCain team has welcomed a host of former Clinton supporters to his camp! They are the voters who can't overlook the sexism they feel was showed their candidate by the media and the Obama campaign. It's true that many of her supporters in the beginning called for her to "step down" when Obama's campaign picked up some speed even though she continued to hold the majority of the popular vote. This is viewed by many women as just another call for the female to "submit" regardless of her intelligence/experience.

Sounds like sour grapes. Clinton dished out just as much nasty as she got. It's politics and as with everything else someone has to lose. But switching to the other side and going against what you believe in (Clinton and Obama's platform issues are far closer related than Clinton and McCains) is not a responsible way to use you vote. After eight years of republicans--supporting McCain as a form of protest is not a risk that they should be willing to take.

While I will say that I admire Clinton for her stamina and for hanging in there even after others thought she had lost the fight, I don't blame people for asking her to move aside. I don't feel it had anything to do with female against male. I think it had everything to do with uniting the Democratic party. Let's face it, the primary race went a lot longer than it really had to. I feel that maybe a part of her tenacity had to do with the fact that she seems to need him a lot more than he needs her. I think that if you were to have put her on the ticket without him, she would have had a tougher time winning that he will whomever he chooses as a running mate. She seems to have alienated a lot of people, me included. And...it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she's a woman.

i believe those willing to switch parties now are not telling us the real reason why they are swinging their vote. i think they are terrified by the anti-american views that most of us really believe obama holds. i think they hold most of the values that clinton holds but they are afraid of obama. they just don't want to say it publicly so they are blaming it on sexism.

and i also believe that are many many many more that will cross party lines and vote for the safer candidate in John McCain.

Don't get me wrong, i am not a mccain fan but he is what we've got. i personally wish for a more hard line fiscal conservative but that's not going to happen this year.

I've also wondered if the long campaign was perhaps a ploy and the democrats decided it would do more good than harm to the party since the McCain camp has admitted it has been hurt by the long media coverage that has completely overshadowed their campaign. Just a thought!

i think the long dem primary was good for mccain. we have spent the last several months watching clinton and obama attempt to destroy each other. they have been basically doing McCain's dirty work for him. they have been smearing each other in the media and he just sits back and watches from the side lines.

McCain should seriously consider a female running mate. I think it would draw in a lot more Hilary supporters.

I have long thought that, like Margaret Thatcher (prime minister of Britain), the first female President in the States would be a conservative. There are a number of men out there who are not comfortable with the very idea of a female president, and most of them are conservative. A female conservative could easily win the support of like-minded thinkers, and be able to draw support from moderate America, as well.

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Originally posted by softballmom:
i believe those willing to switch parties now are not telling us the real reason why they are swinging their vote. i think they are terrified by the anti-american views that most of us really believe obama holds. i think they hold most of the values that clinton holds but they are afraid of obama. they just don't want to say it publicly so they are blaming it on sexism.

and i also believe that are many many many more that will cross party lines and vote for the safer candidate in John McCain.

Don't get me wrong, i am not a mccain fan but he is what we've got. i personally wish for a more hard line fiscal conservative but that's not going to happen this year.

softballmom I agree with you 100%....so much so I can't even think of anything to add