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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 12:56 PM
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Clinton Supporters fired up and angry.

Taking an extended trip to Imperial County, CA.

Speaking with union members of various government unions who were strongly behind Hillary during the primary I am encountering nothing but outrage with the current campaign and more enthusiastic support for Obama than ever before.

These folks who were resigned to support Obama are now vocal and enthusiastic about defeating McCain/Palin.

My prediction: In the end McCain/Palin will not only unify the Democratic Party but help fire up more enthusiasm that has existed since the primaries. These folks who mainly accepted the primary results are now 100% Obama/Biden supporters and they are vocal about it.
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JimGinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 12:57 PM
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1. Good News!
K&R
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 12:57 PM
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2. Thanks for reporting this good news, grantcart!
Edited on Wed Sep-10-08 12:58 PM by flpoljunkie
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 12:59 PM
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3. Great to hear! I often wonder if many PUMAs and their sympathizers might just stay home.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:00 PM
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4. Hope this carries over to those too close to call states, it would really be great.
Hillary Clinton has made it very clear where she stands on the November outcome, her supporters need to take it to heart
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dchill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:00 PM
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5. Gee, I hope that spreads...
to Pennsylvania.
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catgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:00 PM
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6. Kick!!
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barack the house Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:08 PM
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7. This is the way to go, it's all about us and we are something to be exicted aobut we survived 8years
Edited on Wed Sep-10-08 01:09 PM by barack the house
of the worst administration. We ARE the ones we've been waiting for.
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:10 PM
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8. This is not surprising news.
This is like informing me that the sun is hot.
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d.amber Donating Member (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:13 PM
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9. kick!
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:16 PM
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10. The only thing that surprised me about it was how extremely vocal they
are getting. It used to be that I would have to prompt the subject to come up, even during the primaries. Now people are bringing it up on their own. What is even more amazing is that most of these people are in law enforcement related areas which tend to be conservative and people try to go out of their way to keep their informal discussion non partisan. The degree of partisan fever is higher now than I have ever seen in this area.
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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 01:56 PM
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11. grantcart, what would you say the catalyst was?
Edited on Wed Sep-10-08 01:57 PM by chill_wind
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 06:42 PM
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14. Oddly I think that the catalyst is the Iraq war

Somehow I think that the trivialities of the McCain/Palin campaign has re ignited their anger on the lies about the war. A number of people I talked to had several deployents in Iraq.
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secondwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 02:00 PM
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12. too bad you don't live in Virginia............no offense, just sayin...
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The River Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-10-08 02:04 PM
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13. Kick
and Rec.
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