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change party tonight to vote in the Dem caucuses for a candidate they think will be easiest to beat in the General Election.
The GOP has engaged in crossover voting to screw with Democratic Party primaries in the past -- including when the GOP in Georgia had Republicans cross-over to vote against Cynthia McKinney in a Democratic primary and it worked - she lost.
If anything happens tonight that suggests that this was done it will be just another GOP method of stealing an election - and the possibility that it could happen pisses me off.
Whoever wins a fair election wins it - I just want the election to be fair.
I think that Republicans would be happy if Hillary won because they can run a "gloriously" sexist campaign and just repeat the name "Clinton" 1,000's of times...
I also think the GOP would be happy if Obama won. The modern Republican Party is the party of racism -- Ronald Reagan announced his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi (where civil rights activists were murdered); GHW Bush ran racist adds against Dukakis; Trent Lott has to apologize every few years for saying something that praises segregation or the Klan; Democrat Harold Ford narrowly lost his 2006 election in a Southern State after the GOP ran racist adds that suggested that he slept around with (horrors!) white women. There is no doubt that, if Obama wins, the GOP will use every racist trick in the book. Two big, big items that they are pushing right now that will work against Obama in an election is their anti-immigrant position and hatred of Arabs/Muslims. Any issues that activate "anti-white" sentiments in the minds of voters will work against Obama. If Obama wins the primary I will work my ass off to get him elected and we will just have to fight the racist GOP messages -- the racism will be evident.
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