Prominent Republicans Back Obama
* Fmr. Rep. John B. Anderson (R-IL).[9]
* Fmr. Senator Lincoln Chafee (R-RI).[10]
* Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower.[11]
* Mayor Lou Thieblemont of Camp Hill, Penn. Thieblemont switched his party registration from Republican to Democrat so that he could vote for Obama in the Pennsylvania primary. [12]
* Illinois State Sen. Kirk Dillard (R-24). Though not officially endorsing Barack Obama, Dillard has appeared in a television advertisement for him. [13]
* Fmr. Governor and Senator Lowell Weicker (R-CT).[14]
* Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of former president Richard Nixon [15]
* Francis Fukuyama, major figure in the rise of neoconservatism [16]
* Lawrence A. Hunter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Policy Innovation and Chief Economist for the Free Enterprise Fund.[17]
* David D. Friedman, son of free-market economist Milton Friedman[18]
* Legal scholar Douglas Kmiec[19]
* Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University[20]
* Delbert Spurlock, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserves Affairs in the Reagan Administration (1983 to 1989).[21]
* Conservative bloggers:
o Dorothy King[22]
o Andrew Sullivan[23]
Top Bush Fund-Raiser Canning Backs Obama
Barack Obama's Republican edge | Salon News
Republicans defect to the Obama camp - Times Online
Susan Eisenhower - Why I'm Backing Obama - washingtonpost.com
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