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Has Pelosi factored in Republican crossovers & HRC's popular vote
Talk Radio Hostess, Victoria Taft, asks her listeners to consider
temporarily switching their party affiliation in order to vote for New
York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Oregon Primary, as she broadcasts from
her KPAM studio in Milwaukie, Ore.,Thursday March 27, 2008. (AP
Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens) ...
Talk radio hostess Victoria Taft, a familiar Republican voice in the
Democratic-leaning Pacific Northwest, said that even in her wildest
dreams she never imagined urging her listeners to vote for Clinton.
But
these days, Taft is firmly on the New York senator's bandwagon, along
with national conservative talk radio heavyweights like Rush Limbaugh
and Laura Ingraham.
"I want to vet (Illinois Senator) Barack
Obama more than Hillary," said Taft, whose daily program during prime
evening drive-time reaches about 30,000 people. "We know what she is
all about, but we don't know a stinking thing about him."
Her
urging has resonated with listeners like Deborah Whisler, a Tigard-area
retiree, who changed her registration from nonaffiliated to Democratic
after hearing Taft on the radio.
"I almost can't say this without
choking, but I'm going to vote for Hillary Clinton," Whisler said.
"Just on the basis of finding out more about each candidate."...
In Oregon alone, in the past seven weeks, nearly 10,000 voters have
refiled as Democrats, more than 1 percent of the state's 764,000
registered Democrats. More than 3,500 of them were Republicans; almost
all of the rest had been nonaffiliated voters.
In Pennsylvania,
where the primary is set for April 22, the Democrats have registered a
staggering 235,000 new voters since last fall, pushing their numbers to
more than 4.1 million for the first time. In West Virginia, which votes
on May 13, the increase has come in the form of a swell in
nonaffiliated voters, said Democratic Party executive director Tom
Vogel, after the Democratic primary was opened to independents for the
first time in recent history....
"We are sure there are Republicans
who are switching to vote in our primary, whether they honestly want to
vote or if they have more malicious purposes to try to get the
candidate of their choice to run against," Vogel said.
Comments (7)
I think both she and Lombarg should go to jail for promoting voter fraud, and all of those voters that change their party to interfere with these primaries should not be allowed to vote in November.
The never of people to play with something as precious as a right to vote. It is a shame that our voting system allows this to happen in the first place. Like a bunch of kids that rebell because mommy asked them to wash the dishes. What a country we live in.
I will be glad when this is over and we can start the war against republicans.
I hope the courts are ready for an influx of legal battles over this primary season and election. Apparently the grownups have left the children home alone again, and now they think it is time to play.
Our country is going through so much pain right now and to think that people can simply air a comment and get people to do this is disgusting.
This is why we are in this now, all the voter fraud that happened to keep Hillary in during the past primaries. I hope those that represent us in the courts are paying much attention and taking down names. This should be a 5th degree felony if I read it right.
April 1, 2008 8:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think both she and Lombarg should go to jail for promoting voter fraud,
Sigh. Yes. I was pretty depressed when I read that the Ohio A-G was not going to prosecute even Limbaugh. Concluded he's part of the Ohio machine and onside with Hillary.
April 2, 2008 12:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
We need to put into law that if you change your party affiliation for a primary, you will not be able to change back during the general election, and must vote in the party you have chosen or not vote at all, this will stop this bullshit, it is rediculous.
I can not imagine being able to sleep at night if I were these people.
What a joke! Welcome to America
I thought it was the job of the republican party to vett whomever is the nominee, not the candidate in the same party. Oh well, she really is a republican in disguise anyway.
We will win this nomination and if those cross overs work to keep her in, then the superdelegates will finally be pushed to step in before the time that really wanted to.
April 1, 2008 8:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
"We need to put into law that if you change your party affiliation for a primary, you will not be able to change back during the general election, and must vote in the party you have chosen or not vote at all, this will stop this bullshit, it is rediculous." -- I hope you would lose your mind if there was a law restricting the party you could vote for based on past behavior. You should ALWAYS be given the opportunity to change your mind.
In regards to people "abusing" the right to vote, if these people want to vote for Hillary Clinton, it's their prerogative. I'm an Obama supporter, and I want to see him win, but I don't live in Oregon, and it's not up to me how they vote, I can give him money, and I can blog on here how I see it, but individually you HAVE to trust other people to do the right thing. That's the inherent weakness with virtue. You can't force people to act virtuously.
April 1, 2008 9:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes but the problem is the general perception of momentum. Have you seen any of the MSM discussing it? I haven't. eg the Texas convention righted the ship as far as I'm concern. All I've seen in the MSM is that he won more delegates even though she won the primary.
I don't think anyone out in the electorate generally has a real sense of the incredible impact Operation Chaos has had already, let alone in the forthcoming primaries.
April 2, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
I am also concerned about this. The numbers from Texas suggest that the HRC popular vote win margin was due to these Hillary Repugnicans. I may be incorrect but there was also a two fold increase in the Mississippi GOP crossover votes for Hillary when compared with the previous contests.
It may not be enough for her in the end-game but its certainly agitating on principle.
Push comes to shove, this is a type of scenario for a Superdelegate solution.
April 1, 2008 8:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes and it had a profound impact on the media - that 10% in Mississippi made it seem as though Barack had jus thad an ordinary win; minus the Limbaugh vote it would have been seen as massive.
And it's going to make Philadelphia look massive for HRC.
It's so depressing.
April 2, 2008 12:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
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