If Hagel or McCain ran as Independents, what % of Democrats would vote...

[kentuck]

for them? I think enough Repubs might be disenchanted with the present regime to go Independent, but I doubt enough Democrats would support either of them with enough votes to win an election. However, I think it would divide the Republicans deliciously.... :) Is it time we start thinking strategically like a chess game?

[meti57b]

1. Do you mean like even though some of us have never voted for anyone other

than a Democrat, in our whole entire lives ....we register to vote in the republican primary for John MeCain or Hagel? :evilgrin:

[phantom power]

2. could be, but what's your plan for convincing McCain to run Independent?

[kentuck]

7. Just using McCain and Hagel as examples...

we shouldn't get stuck on just those two... But the chess part is building them up as a credible "independent" - just so the knight can capture them at the last minute... :)

[iamjoy]

3. That's A Big If...

Remember how McCain campaigned for Dubya in 2004? He did that even though he personally likes John Kerry better, and even after all Dubya did to McCain in the 2000 primary.

nah, McCain is a loyal Republican and wouldn't cross his party.
Don't know about Hagel.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. McCain wouldn't. I don't think Hagel would pull in votes.

[A Brand New World]

5. I've already employed that strategy back in the 2000 primaries

and it didn't work. The idiot is still president. I changed to Repub in the Ohio 2000 primary just so I could vote against * and voted for McCain. Theoretically in my mind to keep * from winning. I didn't realize that if you did that in the primary you were changing your party from then on. I started getting all of this Repub crap in the mail and on the phone. I had to wait til the next primary to change back to Dem. It drove me CRAZY to think I was on an official roster as a Repub. OH the agony! And all for naught. We're still stuck with **!!

[Clark2008]

6. LOL! I did that, too.

Only, in Tennessee, you don't have to register with a Party, you just have to declare in which primary you wish to vote. I've had the ironic and lovely pleasure of voting AGAINST Bush three times since 2000 (2000 primary, 2000 GE and 2004 GE - voted in the Dem primary in 2004.)

[kentuck]

8. Of course, the Repubs may be thinking the same strategy...

at this moment. If they could divide the Democrats with an Independent candidate, they could squeeze by in the next election also....even with
another right-winger running... Maybe they will try to get Joementum to run? :)

[dmkinsey]

9. The idea would be

to fund the Independant Party and enable them to run a really right winger like Buchanan.
This would split the Repug vote the same way Nader splits the non-repug vote.