McCain meets with former Democratic delegate
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Aug 5, 2008
RACINE, Wisconsin (AP) - Republican John McCain had coffee Thursday with a former Wisconsin Democratic Party delegate who wanted to vote for him at her party's national convention instead of for Barack Obama.
McCain met Debra Bartoshevich, her 16-year-old daughter and Bartoshevich's father at a Racine, Wisconsin, coffee shop before heading to the city's civic center where about 1,000 people attended a town hall meeting. Bartoshevich and her family rode to the meeting on McCain's bus and were introduced by the candidate.
McCain thanked Bartoshevich for her support, calling her a "dye-in-the-wool Democrat."
"And perhaps your reward will be in heaven, but not here on earth but I'd like to thank you," he joked.
Bartoshevich, an emergency room nurse, had pledged to support Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. But after Clinton lost the Democratic Party primary to Obama, Bartoshevich said she intended to vote for McCain instead.
The state Democratic Party dumped her as a delegate last week.
