Democrat Defectors: We’ve Seen This Before, in Reverse

A note from Pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal gives us some indication of those numbers I mentioned yesterdayl, about hom many Democrats would vote McCain, if their boy didn’t win. (Yes, I mean Hillary, too)

Some Context on the Democratic Defectors

Brian

• McQ has an examination of the money situation and Big Oil. Nice…. and worthy, but it doesn’t tell the rest of the taxation story. Note the comments. Sounds like I should be tapping that source from API that wrote me

A not unexpected development, from Gallup, whose Frank Newport says:

A sizable proportion of Democrats would vote for John McCain next November if he is matched against the candidate they do not support for the Democratic nomination. This is

• Honorable Mention at OTB’s Caption Contest. You know, I wonder how many people didn’t get that one. I see Reader got one, too.
  
• Well, all the arguments about how Wrights views are not Obama’s, and that they’re not working

• Busy watching the Sabres beat up on Tampa Bay, so I didn’t get to this until late. PLayoff time, you know… and it looks to me like they’ll be there. IN this win, they entered the third with a 4

Ed Morrissey:

John McCain took some time off of the campaign trail and hit the ground in Iraq this morning.  The media calls it a “surprise visit”, but he had given indications that he would visit Iraq after he clinched

• Rumor control: McCain doesn’t have cancer. The Times, of course is making lots of noise about not being given McCain’s medical records, yet. The funny part of the story is, they’re still waiting for the health records of Bill Clinton,

(Chicago Sun-Times)-He was “the man behind the curtain” whose pervasive influence in the Blagojevich administration stacked state boards and lined his pockets, prosecutors charged Thursday as they opened their highly anticipated corruption case against Tony Rezko. But lawyers for

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns have looked in the mirror and saw a monster. Gerri Peev, Scotsman:

HILLARY Clinton has been branded a “monster” by one of Barack Obama’s top advisers, as the gloves come off in the

When pols power is under threat, all that crap goes away to be replaced by sleeze and attack. I note a story this morning at MSNBC, which reports on the comments from Barrack Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe, who

OK< I should make mention that John McCain has clinched the nomination.

Huck has quit,  and  President Bush will endorse McCain.

Oh… and the sun came up today, too.

But I guess this is still good news by comparison. AsI

Hang down your head Rush Limbaugh.   Hang down your head in shame.   Saturday Night Live has done in a mere two weeks, what you have failed to so in twenty years of broadcsat excellence.   The main stream media has been

Why do I get the feeling that there’s desperation where McCain is concerned? The New York Times, this monring:

WASHINGTON – The question has nagged at the parents of Americans born outside the continental United States for generations: Dare

Maybe it was the fault of the building?

(CNN) — The building where a gunman killed five people at Northern Illinois University two weeks ago will be demolished, state officials said Wednesday

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s office confirmed

Chris Cillizza at the WaPo Politics Blog:

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) said Monday that the media’s pro-Obama (or anti-Clinton) bias explains in part why Barack Obama is portrayed as running away with the Democratic presidential nomination (instead of being