If Obama wins the nomination will you vote for him

but I will vote for ANY Democrat that is nominated, in the General Election
i will not sit home
i will not vote for a republican (ever!)
i will not vote for Nader, if he decides to stroke his ego again
i will vote for a DEMOCRAT!

I will vote for whoever our nominee is...

Any one of ours is better than any one of theirs...

Since I believe in the Democratic Party I don't care who gets the nomination. I plan on voting Democratic.

Yes. I will being supporting the DEM nominee.

can expose themselves. What Democrat wouldn't vote for Obama?

Obama is embracing the right wing just a little much, don't you think?

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there is no question whether I will vote for him. Yes I will.

Yes!

Admiring a person's political skills is not the same as admiring his policies.

Raygun was much like Bill Clinton - remarkable personal appeal, and policies that sucked. Nobody is saying "Raygun/Bush is nice".

For all his talk about uniting everybody, he only seems to be looking in one direction, and it ain't the left.

Perhaps Barack should take a look at the REAL numbers of elections since 1980 and realize that half the voters out there don't vote at all, because "a choice of cancer or polio" doesn't motivate them to get to the polls. If he would reach out to LIBERALS the way he has to the right, he could have won in a landslide. Right now he's only looking slightly more tolerable than Hillary. And she's not, at all.

One learns something new everyday. :sarcasm:

There are gays, poor people, women, people of color, victims of war, etc. who would be far better off with any Democrat than with any of the Republicans running right now. One more Supreme Court Justice appointed by a Republican and it's likely we'll see the end of a woman's right to choose, not to mention a further collapse in protection for other minorities. It's disgraceful that anyone in this forum would even consider not voting for the Democratic nominee.

Hillary will never get my vote. Obama needs to start reaching out to the left in equal proportions as he has to the right, or all his talk of "unity" is bullshit. Edwards WAS the most likely of the corporate-anointed-three to get my support, but if he had anything to do with locking Kucinich out of the debates, he can go to Hell.

Why should we support those who deliberately stab us in the back? You're asking us to act like the stereotypical battered wife, and just continue to put up with this shit?

Because we have no choice. Because if we get another Republican then we'll get a Supreme Court that overturns Roe v. Wade and maybe even Lawrence v. Texas. Why? Because Republican philosophy is about every man for himself, giving the dominant group a tremendous advantage, and the Democratic philosophy is about us all being in this together. All the Democrats have very good scores from all the liberal groups and all the Democrats support some for of national health care. They are not a bad bunch, and Presidential policy is shaped as much by Congress as by the President him/herself. If we can get a Democratic in the White House and get a progressive majority in the Congress we'll get far more done than if the Republicans are in a position to block us.

We have 14 DLC Senators right now who vote as Democrats less than 50% of the time on real issues. We HAVE a majority in both houses now, yet Spineless Reid and Jellyfish Pelosi will not stand up to the Chimp.

I'd like to believe that either Edwards or Obama, combined with Chris Dodd as Senate Majority Leader and Dennis Kucinich as Speaker of the House could get things done, but neither of them seems to be giving any indication that would be the case. And Hillary? If anything changed there, it would only be for the worse.

even though it's still early on is troubling. Imagine the public at large when viewing these numbers. It could be a disappointing January 2009 if one were to extrapolate these numbers to the general public. And don't forget, this is DU and these numbers don't bode well for an Obama victory regardless of how enlightened some think the public is nowadays. I have heard several folks already state that they would not vote for Obama. And these are democrats not pukes saying this. I would like to think that America is better than this but I don't believe it is, yet anyway. Personally, I will vote for Obama should he be our nominee, but I will be white knuckling the eventual results.

vote for ANY Democrat over ANY Republican--unless, say, it's a choice between a Zell Miller-type "Democrat" and Chuck Percy-type "Republican."

Personally, Obama is my first choice and Edwards my second. Hillary has the LEAST progressive track record and is the MOST risky as far as the Repukes' chances of winning.

It would be nice if someone could be nominated with a platform approximately like Kucinich (or more progressive) and be elected, but, as they say, you can't dissolve the public (or the mass media machine) and pick a new one. Given public opinion, a mainstream Democrat WITHOUT HIGH NEGATIVES is what is needed to win. B/t Edwards and Obama, Obama stands up better as a candidate in a race with closer honest (not agenda-driven) scrutiny. Edwards just wasn't impressive in 04, especially the debate.

I TOTALLY disagree on the content with Obama denying that HRC and campaign were CLEARLY and DELIBERATELY engaging in a PATTERNED strategy of race-baiting, particular in the short time frame after NH, but he chose to be magnanimous. Maybe not as much as JFK but the man has class (moreso than HRC, Bill C, Edwards, Kerry, Gore -- who comes FROM an aristocratic background), Lieberman, Dukakis, Mondale or Carter. I could go on, but I think you get the idea.

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theme" is getting a lot of Democrats angry at him. Get a clue Barack, and praise some Democratic president like FDR instead of Reagan!

I call bullshit on those who are saying they won't.

Undecided...

He is my least favorite of the candidates but he is still far superior to any of the Republicans. And I am sure not sitting it out or voting for some obscure third party candidate (which is in effect voting for the Republican) just because he isn't my first choice. No way.

I won't be wildly excited about it, but I will vote for Obama if he's the nominee.

is living in some sort of fantasy world with perfect candidates and puppy dogs made of ice cream and rainbows that shoot out of your ass whenever you fart.