At long last, the Democratic National Convention is here. And the cable news boyz are salivating over the prospects of a whole week of Clinton bashing. We haven't even seen any speeches yet or any of the Clinton delegates who have the nerve to flaunt their "Women for Hillary" buttons on sacred Obama ground. Yet already, CNN's Roland Martin is fitfully emoting, raising his voice and contorting his face, about all the "Clinton-Obama drama."
Why oh why, lectures Roland, can't Hillary and her supporters put party over "your petty personal issues." Roland also threw around the word "dumb," but refused to specify if he was calling Hillary "dumb" or her supporters. And we were just getting used to the term "dead-enders."
But you heard him. Fall in line little wimin! Or in the words of Barack Obama, just 'get over it.'
Ooops. Somebody isn't falling in line. In a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll taken after Obama announced his VP pick, 27 percent of Hillary supporters say they’ll vote for McCain, up from 16 percent in late June. "The number of Clinton Democrats who say they would vote for McCain has gone up 11 points since June."
Yet another poll, the USA Today/Gallup, puts the number of Hillary supporters who will vote for McCain, someone other than Obama, or no one at all, at 30 percent.
With the brothers Roland Martin and Jack Caffetry lecturing the little wimin about our "petty personal issues," the numbers of rebellious women can only increase.
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