I needed to understand this 11% of Hillary supporters who claim they will now only vote for McCain. So I delved into the likes of Hillaryis44 and No Quarter. And found that there is real hate out there, but we all already knew that.
Unfortunately from these blogs I still couldn't tell how real this hate was. Is this group of people really worth paying any attention to? I don't think so.
I was worried at first, but then I started reading and listening to real Hillary supporters and they are coming to terms to what our real task at hand is: Beating John Mc(whatever)!
My pediatrician was a huge Clinton fan she's on board, my pilates instructor another Clinton fan, now on board. And these are only two of the many women in my life that are (not were) huge Hillary fans but are now willing to get on board and help reclaim the White House. Each of them explained to me eloquently their very sane and understandable reasons for supporting Hillary to the end. And I thanked them for always including me in their discussions.
So this brings me back to what some have labeled as the "dead enders". I think that's all they are. They should be ignored, because the only people that could convince them to get on board is themselves, Hillary wasn't even able to do it. And my time here writing about them is only in hope that I save someone else the worry that I have been going through this last week. We shouldn't waste our time and energy on this very small minority. Because I'm sure for every "dead ender" there is a counter part, an unregistered voter who wants Obama in!
This video from Faux pretty much summed it up for me (I tried to embed it but it didn't work, sorry). If the people over at Faux think these people are crazy, then it's time for all of us to recognize we do not need these fringe voters to win this election!
Enough of the arguing with the 11% of the 49% of our so called base. We've got an election to win!