Friday, January 25, 2008

Red State Dems for Obama

Current list is:

  1. Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota
  2. Sen. Tim Johnson of South Dakota
  3. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri
  4. Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska
  5. former senator Gary Hart of Colorado
  6. Gov. Jim Doyle of Wisconsin
  7. Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia
  8. Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona

These are all states that lean or are solidly Republican. It's nice to think that their endorsements are based on the idealistic language of Obama's campaign, but the hard fact of the matter is they are based on the cold realization that a ticket including Hillary Clinton would be fatal to the Democratic party in those states. Hillary's favorable ratings are generally abysmal among the GOP and Independents, so it's not hard to make the logical inference that ALL state races (house, senate, gov, etc.) would be dragged down by Hillary.

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