[Drew]

I think that strong clevage amongst Clinton supporters not wanting to vote for Obama over McCain will change once Clinton is out and the two have to start campaigning against each other.

Honestly, three weeks ago I was still saying how I'd seriously consider voting for McCain over Clinton myself, as an Obama supporter, if Obama lost. Then I got onto the subject of some of McCains economic and health care positions with a buddy of mine, tossing emails back and forth at work, and realized that I didn't know very much about his positions. So I did some work.

I very quickly realized that if it came down to Clinton/McCain, as much as I do respect McCain on a personal level and dislike Clinton on a personal level, I'd vote for Clinton. I'd be a moron not to. McCain is in favor of making Bush's temporary tax cuts, which he voted against, permanent, at a time when our tax rates are at historic lows and our deficit is spiraling out of control. He's in favor of staying in Iraq indefinitely, and he's taking swipes at Iran. And his health care policy, without going too far into specifics, contradicts his high-level stance about costs being out of control (which I gave him credit for) and is on top of that just very poorly thought out, and would do more harm than good I suspect.

Clinton I dislike. However, in terms of policy, there's not much she's pledging to do that would be even remotely as damaging as McCain's economic policy. Clinton may be annoying, but I'll take annoyance over national insolvency, you know?

Those numbers are going to change in a big way between now and November, provided the Democratic party has enough time to remind voters just how different McCain's stance is from Hillary's and Barack's.