I may be wrong about this. Several of my friends are staunch Democrats and they seem to be distancing themselves from their two candidates. It's kind of hard to explain but I get the feeling that they are squirming about the tenor of the primary battle. Almost like they are embarrassed. One of them said flatly the other day that McCain will be "the next president of the United States." He said it without any qualification about sorrow with that outcome. I'm sure he is not a McCain supporter, but neither is he a supporter of the type of battle that we are witnessing in the Democrat primary. After this clubbing between the two candidates is done and a winner is determined, I imagine it will be tough to support the victor.