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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Schism In The Democrat Party

Well it looks like Obama took North Carolina and Clinton wins Indiana but Marc Ambinder has this look at the exit polls and they point to a fiercely divided party.

Forget the horse race numbers for a moment: if the surveys are accurate, the polarization within the Democratic Party has reached critical levels. Nearly six in ten Obama supporters in Indiana say they would be dissatisfied if Clinton were the nominee -- that's (I believe) the high percentage of Obama supporters who have ever said that.

In both IN and NC, two thirds of Clinton supporters say they'd be dissatisfied if Obama were the nominee -- I believe that's the highest number recorded for that question, too.

The percentage of Clinton voters who say they'd choose McCain over Obama in a general election is approaching 40% in Indiana. Put it another way: in North Carolina, less than HALF of folks who voted today for Hillary Clinton are ready to say today that they'd definitely vote for Obama in a general election.

I expect the calls for Hillary to drop out to get ever shriller but why with Kentucky and West Virginia coming up, two states with strong Clinton support. This is going all the way to the DNC convention in Denver and the moonbats are promising to make a real party of it with a peace, love, drugs and anarchy tent city.

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