I guess the answer that comes closest to mine is "1," but there will be no holding of the nose in my ballot booth. I'm a firm Obama supporter, and have been since it became clear to me that he would be the Democratic candidate. I supported Hillary Clinton before that, but I have no bitterness over her defeat.

The hopiate of the masses. . .
A habit that's impossible to break.

Sounds like you had an easier time adjusting to Obama than I did to McCain . . . like, much easier.

Obama voted against it because it was trying to overturn/undermine Roe v. Wade . . .

(Passed 10-0 by committee before vote on bill. Obama is one of the 10)

1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1082

2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1082 on page 1, by

3 replacing lines 24 through 26 with the following:

4 “(c) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to

5 affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal

6 right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at

7 any point prior to being born alive as defined in this

8 Section.”.

The addition of this amendment made the bill identical to the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which by then had already passed the U.S. Senate unanimously (with a hearty endorsement even from abortion advocate Sen. Barbara Boxer) and had been signed into law by President Bush.

Honesty you can believe in in all 57 States.

I'm a Hillary supporter but don't believe she's the best VP choice for Obama. I would prefer he did not put her on the ticket.

But then again, I'm not planning on voting for Senator Obama.

I'm now leaning toward McCain but will have to see what happens with his VP choice.

I may end up staying home this election, something I've never done.

Well, one thing about McCain is that one cannot accuse him of sucking up to the GOP party. He has been much more inclined to flip them the bird than anything else.

He simply isn't a conservative in the way that term is generally applied these days.

I'm disqualified here. Early on, I was neither a Hillary or Barack supporter. But Obama is okay with me. Anyone but John McSame.

Also, you're a guy. There's a line of reasoning out there to the effect that guys are . . . guy-like. Not that there's anything wrong with that . . .