1. Obama

2. Very unlikely, but possibly if Hillary gets the nomination by being even sleazier than she's been so far. You get more of what you reward, and having future Democratic candidates conclude from Hillary (and Rove) that sleaziness is what wins would be a recipe for long-term crud in the Democratic party.

3. Obama (barring a revelation much, much more shocking that Wrightgate or Bittergate)

4. Obama

I agree that unifying the party won't be easy, and a lot of damage has been done. McCain will have quite a few ads featuring Hillary's words more than his own, especially her endorsement of him over Obama. But don't underestimate Obama.

1. Clinton.
2. Probably not. If I don't like the democrats handling of Clinton at the convention, I probably just won't vote. I'm already upset about the top party men (like Leahey) calling for her to "step down" and I'm really upset about Jimmy Carter's statement -- and I have always loved Jimmy Carter, but these men are going too far. They don't own the democratic party and it's time for them to know that. I'm also really tired of the constant chirping by Obama supporters that she's "sleazy." She's no such thing.
3. I honestly don't know at this point. While Clinton is at 10% chance now, things could be different in two weeks.
4. I predict the democrat will win no matter which one it is. The war has been too costly to the Republicans and while McCain is very likeable, I am beginning to think he doesn't have the smarts for the campaign or the job.

1. Obama
2. No, I'd just as soon not get drafted for Operation "Look, there's oil next door!".
3. Obama by June 7.
4. Obama, as long as McCain is mercilessly hit with "Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" and 100- 10,000 years of occupying Iraq. This country will see the only sane choice after those 2 moments.

Qtip, why the poll to gauge blog commenters?

I can't support Obama. He wants to heal the country, and rise above partisanship and work with the Republicans in the spirit of bipartisanship. Fuck that.

Every time the GOP controls the legislature or the presidency, they try to steamroll the Democrats on all issues. And it works. The Democrats capitulate and bargain and end up getting screwed on the issues when the GOP is in power.

What should Democrats do when they are in power? They should return the favor. No bargaining, no bipartisanship. Obama worries me because I can easily see him bargaining with the GOP when he doesn't have to, just to maintain his "above the fray" image.

That said, McCain will never get my vote. He stands for too many things that I disagree with.

Barring a huge scandal, Hillary has completely sunk her campaign with a combination of bad management, bad message and bad luck. There's simply no way that she will get the nomination.

McCain's too old. He's a likable guy, but the country likes youth. The only way McCain can get around this is if he runs with a charismatic VP, but the charisma left the GOP long ago. I'll predict that McCain picks Romney as his VP and loses to Obama in November.

1. Obama

2. Never

3. Obama

4. Obama

1 clinton
2 maybe
I don't like the vast majority of the Obama supporters I've met or read and don't want to be associated with them. I'm pissed at the way the votes in Fl and MI were not counted and Obama's fight against a revote. There are many other things I don't like about Obama.
3 obama
4 who knows?

1. Obama
2. No, I'll request a provisional ballot and write in Obama.
3. Obama
4. Obama

I'm a NYer who never has, and never will vote for Hillary Clinton. I'm disappointed in Democrats who buy into her lies, like above. Statistically, this thing is over. We need to defeat Hillary and expose her for what she is to bring the party back together. Taking down grandpa McCain will be easy for Obama. Think Kennedy Nixon debates, but put it in the mass media age. Hopefully NY can get a new Senator because of the disgrace of her campaign as well. I came to Obama late as an anybody but Hillary Democrat. Now I'm proud to have such a candidate as we do in Obama.

1. Obama
2. No
3. Obama
4. Obama
("copy and paste" sure made that easy)

1. Obama
2. Absolutely not.
3. Obama
4. Obama

1. Obama
2. No
3. Obama
4. Obama
I think he's shown a fantastic ability to overcome challenges so far which gives me great hope compared to Democrats past (kudos to Axelrod and the rest of the team); however it is hard to know how much of a role race will play in the GE or how it will be exploited by the right. Scary stuff, but he deserves the shot.

1. Who do I support right now? Senator Obama.

2. If your candidate is not the nominee, would you vote for McCain in November? No.

3. Who do you think the nominee will be? Obama.

4. Who will be the next president of the United States? Obama.

1)Edwards/ then Obama, I was slow jumping on his band-wagon, but got there by Feb 5th SuperDuper Tuesday. Though after his New Hampshire concession speech, I was willing to jump, just to keep him in the race and talking. After Edwards suspended his campaign, my 17 year old son and 69 yr old mother both made me look very hard at Obama.(She said watching my son looking at Obama reminded her of how she felt and must have looked listening to JFK and then later, RFK. And with Edwards, Dodd and Richardson effectively gone, or at least neutered, it was quite easy to vote in my primary for Barack. And at that time, I would have still happily voted for Senator Clinton in the general. Thimgs have changed since then, but she's still much better than McCain.

2)Not just no, but hell no! Does it matter? Nah. TN's electoral votes all go to the 50%+1 Since '96, my vote has not mattered or counted for President. My inclination, if Hillary wins this ugly, is to sit out the Pres race. (Can't reward bad behavior.) But I will still vote for her, McCain is sooooooooooo much worse. And of course I will vote, down-ticket races are damned important too.

3) Obama. There's almost no way she can concievably win the primary fight. I'm not saying it can't happen, I'm saying it is highly improbable and un-likely. It's "inconcievable!", "You keep using that word, I'm not sure it means what you think it means." (As an aside, someone could write a great post comparing Princess Bride and presidential politics, so many great quotes.)

4)Obama. If McCain wins it, we'll all know something is damned wrong. Sure we'll have to see the polling before the vote, but the only clue any of us will have is the post-vote polling. The same poll that showed us that FL was stolen in 2000(and then altered to "reflect the new facts", and that intimated Ohio was stolen in 2004, (and again 'tweeked' to fit the narrative 'Bush has won!'). The only polling data we've ever seen which was changed to reflect the actual final vote count and it's previous day-of data ceased to exist. These are the same polling techniques that the UN and the Carter Center rely on in third-world banana republics to tell them if the actual election results are real. They work everywhere else in the world, but here they are off by a factor of 5 or so? HUH? And we accept the vote tallies we are given by Republican companies, using non- verifiable internal vote counters and counts? And we don't think it's odd when an actual poll of people who had just pulled a lever tell a very different story???

So my fast answer is, yes I will vote for Senator Clinton in the general against McCain.