It All Comes Down To This
I guess it’s only fitting that Ronald Regan’s Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein announced today that he will not be voting for John McCain.
Update:
Here is a small list of other prominent republicans that have chosen to endorse Barack Obama over John McCain:
Former Republican Governor of Massachusetts William Weld
Former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee
Former Republican Governor of Minnesota Arne Carlson
Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach
Wayne Gilchrest, Congressman from Maryland
Larry Pressler, Former Senator from South Dakota
Lowell Weicker, Former Governor and Senator from Connecticut
Richard Riordan, Former Mayor of Los Angeles
Jim Whitaker, Fairbanks, Alaska Mayor
Linwood Holton, Former Governor of Virginia
Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State
Douglas Kmiec, Head of the Office of Legal Counsel under Reagan & Bush (41)
Charles Fried, Solictor General of the United States under Reagan
Jackson M. Andrews, Republican Counsel to the United States Senate
Susan Eisenhower, Granddaughter of President Eisenhower and President of the Eisenhower Group
Francis Fukuyama, Advisor to President Reagan
Rita Hauser, Member of President Bush‘s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Larry Hunter, Former President Reagan Policy Advisor
Bill Ruckelshaus, served in the Nixon and Reagan Administrations
Scott McClellan, Former Press Secretary to President Bush (43)
Ken Adelman
Jeffrey Hart, National Review Senior Editor
Wick Alison, Former Publisher of the National Review
Christopher Buckley, Son of National Review Founder William F. Buckley and former National Review columnist
Michael Smerconish, Columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer
C.C. Goldwater, Granddaughter of Barry Goldwater
Note:
John McCain is not fairing to well with newspaper endorsements either. He is trailing Obama 245 to 78 with both the The Financial Times and The Economist coming out against him last week.
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