that is interesting. i hope that Dems realize the election this year is WAY too important to let the GOP keep the WH. they shoved Bush on us and don't deserve in the least to let that egomaniac and loose-lipped McCain enter the Oval Office. i certainly hope the feelings of many Dems (bitter ones) are merely from the 'now' and will not be present at the 'then' in November. Vote Democratic and all will be fine (or at least set on the correct track to being better).

Yes, and many this year claimed they would NEVER support McCain but are not behind him 100%. It's the old American desire to vote for the WINNER!!!

Honestly, some people vote as though it's a test and you only get it right if you vote for the winning candidate. That's why polling gets so important to campaigns -- they want the swing voters who tend to decide the candidate leading in the polls must be the best candidate.

Yes, Clinton's supporters will likely vote for Obama and Obama's supporters will vote for Clinton - despite the demogoguery here against her.

It's something I have found difficult to understand - this intense need to hate the candidate your candidate is running against. IT makes no sense, particularly in a primary where one of the reason the candidates are so close is because their policies are so similar.

The thing is, though, that it makes folks sound like lunatics. Oh yes, I want us to go after McCain with both barrels, but not hating him and not sounding like idiots. Go after him on facts, not fevered conspiracy dreams that make us sound like we wrap our heads in tinfoil. Honestly, it's embarrassing.

If we sound as idiotic going after McCain as the Obama supporters have sounded going after Clinton - we will deserve to lose. Why would the American people listen to a bunch of fruitcakes?

Thankfully, the candidates on the Democratic side know better. McCain suggestion that Obama is the Hamas candidate means we may be able to hang the fruitcake label on him -- but with fact, not these crazy free associated what-if-allegation fests that has passed for discourse lately.

I suspect today may be the end of it - though I did already cast my ballot in the Oregon primary - for once voting with the feeling that my vote might actually be counted - an ephemeral feeling among all of you who want to deny me that right.

I will vote for OBama in November - if he wins the nomination. Not as happily as I would have if I had not read the kind of misogynist hatemongering his supporters indulged in daily. He will be the most conservative presidential candidate I will have ever voted for and I find it sad that there's such enthusiasm for such a conservative.

I also find it sad that this time we are the party under the spell of personality (yes, an inspiring and positive personality as opposed to a lazy and oafish one.) I comfort myself that despite his inexperience and his content free personality-based campaign - he is no empty shell like Bush. He's smart, well-educated and not a belligerent bully.

But I think we can take down our "reality-based" signs now. Certainly those signs belong in no homes of the Democrats claiming Clinton is Republican-lite. That's tinfoil talk, not reality-based.