"Will someone please convince me to vote for McCain?" Elizabeth Joyce, a supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., implored Monday night in a bar full of proponents of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
The lifelong Democrat and editor of the political blog hireheels.com for the "Sex and the City" set, is ready and willing to cross over to the McCain camp . . . if only someone would give her a reason.
"A good little Catholic girl from Boston, I don't vote on the first date," Joyce said.
By 10 p.m., she still was not convinced, but Joyce does know she will not support Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for president.
Elizabeth Joyce and a handful of Clinton faithful at a Republican National Committee happy hour in Clinton's honor in downtown Denver were feeling jilted by the party's treatment of their candidate.
"I will never be for Obama. I don't believe he has been fairly chosen," said Marnie Delano, a New York member of People United Means Action, a PAC formed in June by Democrats who oppose Obama.
Delano, Joyce and a third Clinton supporter who would only allow his first name, Patrick, to be used, all alleged voter intimidation by Obama's camp during the primaries.
The event at the Paramount Cafe drew about 100 people, many of whom appeared to be McCain supporters from the beginning.
- by Anna Edney
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