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I should add that, in either case but particularly if Obama wins the nomination, I will be sorely tempted to vote for the Nader/Gonzalez ticket. Gonzalez is a true progressive, unlike either Dem. Although I want to avoid a reign of McCain, and although being in Oregon unlike the much bluer California will probably sway me to vote Dem, I agree with the poster above who remarked that having a two-party system in a "democracy" is ridiculous, and believe that we have to stand for systemic political change with our votes as well as our activism.

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I was listening to the show and heard Brian, an unaffiliated-turned-Democrat because he's so excited about voting for Obama. I had to post and say that my husband and I are both lifelong unaffiliated voters (myself primarily in California, here in OR since 2005) who are re-registering as Dems in order to vote for Clinton. Not only do we agree that Clinton is better on domestic policy, healthcare, and human rights (particularly in her outreach to the gay and lesbian community, an area where Obama has been evasive at best), but we are appalled by the media-promulgated acceptance of misogyny in the rhetoric of this primary. Although we're both far more left-leaning than either Obama or Clinton, we feel it incumbent upon us to register our discontent with both the status quo and the Obama cheer brigades by voting for her. Clearly, this move is pragmatic, or even cynical, but as Democrats we will, of course, participate fully in all party elections and events and continue our political activism as organizers and fundraisers. Since we both vote primarily Democrat (the notable exception for me being my vote for Matt Gonzalez, Green Party candidate for mayor of San Francisco, and for Nader prior to that), it is a sensible move in terms of supporting our party of, if not choice, default.

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