The Results of Yesterday's Presidential Poll of Readers of This Blog

As of about 3 pm  EST, there were 392 votes cast as follows:

1.  Barack Obama (81%)

2.  John McCain (10%)

3.  Ralph Nader (4%)

4.  Bob Barr (3%)

5.  Cynthia McKinney, Chuck Baldwin, Roger Calero (each 1%)

While there were 38 votes for Senator McCain among the readers, there were 39 votes for the third party candidates, including 21 for third party candidates of the left.  I suppose there are no real surprises here, certainly not in the overwhelming support for Obama.  I suspect some of the McCain supporters are religious conservatives and some are libertarians opposing an Obama victory.  In any case, for the 14% of readers who voted for some candidate of the 'right' (though I'm a bit reluctant to lump Barr in with Baldwin and McCain), you'll be happy to know that I'm hopeful an Obama victory will permit me to ignore politics for a long time!