I agree with stocktrader. I am a card carrying republican, albeit a just right of center one with a libertarian rights theorist and consequentialist bent. I hope McCain has a better chance against Obama though, but do wish Hilary would win the dem nomination to be safe.

This is not about race or gender. I would have voted for Collin Powell and would vote for Condolezza Rice, who I have had the good fortune to meet. It is about partisan viewpoints as should always be the case. Elections should be color and gender blind and always about the issues. Voting for a white guy does not suddently mean race and gender were the reason.

If Obama wins he wins. I have survived democratic administrations before and at least one dream of the great Martin Luther King will have been realized, but no, if I were a democrat, I would not vote for or against him because of his race, I would vote for him because he has a better chance of beating McCain and because he is . . . well, a democrat.