Opinion: Sore Future Losers in the Keystone State

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Hey there, Pennsylvania Democrats: are you sure you’re old enough to vote? Because some of you are acting like two-year-olds.

A Franklin & Marshall College poll has found that if Barack Obama wins* the nomination, 19% of Hillary Clinton voters — at least in Pennsylvania — say they’ll vote for John McCain on election day. Ditto Clinton supporters — an Obama nomination would send 20% of them to the R column, and to John McCain.

For these petulant Democratic voters, it appears it’s about personality over policy after all. They’ll choose four more years of Republican appointments of judges, Republican policies in the Iraq war, in environmental matters, in abortion and family planning programs, and tax cuts for the already prosperous ... all this over a Democratic fiscal and social and war agenda.

Nice work, people. If you want to cast a protest vote, why not choose Ralph Nader? This isn’t like Florida 2000, where voters were confused by the ballot. If McCain wins as a consequence of this ‘’my way or the highway’’ sulking, Democrats will know who they have to blame: one another.

* Thanks to commenter Lorie for the correction.