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Those Fabled Obamacans
ByAndrew Romano questions the extent of Republican support for Obama:
...are there enough rank-and-file Republicans whispering their support at Obama rallies to actually make a difference on Election Day? As I discovered from examination the last 18 months of head-to-head general election polls, the answer seems to be "no." In fact, John McCain's share of the Democratic vote has typically--and surprisingly--been larger than Obama's share of the Republican vote. In other words, it's not that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scared the Obamacan masses off, as some pundits have theorized--it's that they never existed (in any unprecedented way) to begin with.
This is why my own favored term is Obamacons: conservatives with an uneasy relationship with the GOP who see in Obama some of the temperamental calm and foreign policy prudence they have missed these past few years.
