Campaign Sniping Has More Democrats Saying They’ll Vote McCain If Their Candidate Loses:
Polls now show words from both camps are causing serious damage. An increasing number of Clinton supporters say they would not vote for Obama in November and vice versa.
According to a new Franklin & Marshall College poll of Pennsylvania voters, only 53 percent of Clinton backers say they’ll vote for Obama should he become the nominee. Nineteen percent say they’ll vote for McCain and 13 percent say they won’t vote, the poll found.
The poll said that 60 percent of Obama backers said they would go for Clinton should she win the nomination, with 20 percent opting for McCain, and 3 percent saying they wouldn’t vote at all.
That’s what ABC News found in talking to voters on the street.
“I think I’d have to vote for McCain,” Laura Courson, New York woman who supports Clinton told ABC News, when asked what she would do if her candidate were not the Democrats’ nominee.
“I’d have a hard time voting for Hillary Clinton in this election … I might go for a third party candidate,” said Kevin Mills, a Los Angeles man who supports Obama.
The early months of the campaign were reasonably cordial. But as the race has gone on and on, it has also grown nastier.