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May 7, 2008 4:45 pm US/Eastern
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Talk Of 'Dream Ticket' Grows With 'Voteboth.com'
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
Hillary Clinton may be down, but don't count her out just yet.
She lost the North Carolina primary on Tuesday night to Barack Obama and narrowly won Indiana. Now her supporters are trying to build support for a so-called "Dream Ticket." On Tuesday, Hillary supporters launched "Voteboth.com" to push the idea of an Obama-Clinton ticket.
"We figure why have a nominee who has won 51.1 percent of the vote when you can have a ticket of both of them who have won 100 percent of the Democratic vote?" Voteboth.com spokesman Sam Arora said.
Until recently, Arora was Clinton's press spokesman, but now he's okay with Obama in the No. 1 spot.
"If Sen. Obama becomes the nominee we're going to make the case that hope and experience can co-exist and make the ticket much stronger," Arora said.
Pundits say that a "Dream Ticket" could deal with one problem – the possibility that Hillary supporters could vote for Republican John McCain come November.
"It could cut down on those numbers if there are Hillary supporters who are moving to McCain principally because they don't want to vote for a black president," said political expert David Birdsell of Baruch College. "It won't make any difference, but if there are Hillary supporters who really believe a Clinton should be in the White House, those are votes that they might help keep."
Exit polls Tuesday showed that a high percentage of Hillary supporters plan to vote for McCain if she doesn't get the nomination, with 32 percent of Indiana Clinton voters and 35 percent of North Carolina saying they'll switch parties.
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