AP: "Heated campaign souring Democrats on rival candidates" (Hope you
enjoy this as much as I did!)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/campaign_divided_democrats
"Exit polls of voters in this year's Democratic primaries tell a
similar tale of hard feelings:
_In Pennsylvania's primary last week, which Clinton won, 68 percent of
Obama voters said they would back Clinton against McCain. Just 54
percent of her sup****ters said they would vote for Obama against the
Republican =97 including less than half her white voters who have not
finished college.
_In the 16 states that held primaries on Super Tuesday Feb. 5, a
combined 47 percent of Clinton voters said they would be satisfied
only if she won the nomination. That figure has grown to 53 percent in
the nine states with primaries since then =97 including 58 percent who
said so in Pennsylvania.
_In Pennsylvania, while Clinton voters overall would vote heavily for
Obama over McCain, her sup****ters who expressed displeasure should
Obama win the nomination were evenly split in a contest between Obama
and the Arizona Republican senator.
_Obama voters have also grown more surly, though more modestly. On
Super Tuesday, 44 percent of his sup****ters said they would only
settle for him as nominee =97 a number that has risen to 49 percent in
states voting since that day.
"The whole Democratic primary has gotten almost dirty. Everybody takes
a shot at everybody else, and everybody's shots are not necessarily
the whole truth," said David Bogart, 25, a caretaker from Clermont,
Fla.
Exit polls also show key voting blocs' negative feelings about their
candidate's rival have grown, though it is less intense on Obama's
side.
On Super Tuesday, about half of Clinton's white sup****ters with less
than college degrees said they would be satisfied only if she won the
nomination. In voting since then, six in 10 have said so =97 including
68 percent in Pennsylvania last week.
On the other hand, 46 percent of Obama's black sup****ters on Super
Tuesday said he was the only candidate they wanted to win. That number
has edged up to 49 percent since that Feb. 5 voting =97 including 55
percent in Pennsylvania."
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