Thursday, May 8, 2008

I Don't Want to Believe It, But It's Certainly Possible

Is "Operation Chaos" working?

For those of you who don't know (and Lord, how I wish I was one of you, but my boss loves that fat, druggie of a radio host, meaning occasionally I have to hear him) "Operation Chaos" is the name of Rush Limbaugh's project to keep the Democratic nomination process going as long as possible. He wants his listeners to cross party lines and vote for Hillary Clinton in order to keep Barack Obama from winning the nomination and the Democratic party from regrouping and focusing on John McCain.

I have no doubt that some of his listeners have responded, but I didn't think that it would have an actual effect on any of the races.

Some say that it did in Texas, where Rush has a lot of listeners, it's an open primary, and Hillary won a very close race.

I didn't start to believe it could effect a race until Indiana.

Again, it's an open primary and Hillary won a close race, a race decided by fewer then 20,000 votes. Numbers that I can believe listen to Rush and follow his Operation Chaos theory.

Add that to the fact that in exit polls up to 70% of Obama supporters say that they will vote for Clinton, but less then half of Clinton supporters say that they will vote for Obama. I wish the pollsters had asked a follow up question of those supporters. I wish they had asked if they would have vote for Clinton against McCain. I wouldn't be surprised to see that only 60% or so would say yes, the rest saying that they would vote for McCain.

It just doesn't make sense to me that a supporter of Clinton would not ultimately support the Democratic party. It actually makes more sense to me that Obama supporters would turn their back on the Clintons, because he's getting a lot of support from people who haven't voted before and aren't classical Democrats, but are people that believe in him as a change from the typical Politician. Yet 70% of his voters say they'd vote for Clinton while over half of those who voted for Clinton say they wouldn't vote for Obama.

That leads me to surmise that they probably wouldn't vote for her in the general election either.

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