Senator John McCain, the Republican Party nominee, was endorsed or supported by some members of the Democratic Party and by some political figures holding liberal views in the 2008 United States presidential election. McCain Democrat and McCainocrat are terms applied to Democrats who supported McCain.
"Democrats for McCain" sign at a McCain campaign rally in Albuquerque
A woman wearing a sign saying, "Another Democrat for McCain/Palin"
Individual with a sign outside the 2008 DNC advertising a website called "Hillary; now for McCain"
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"People United Means Action" was a political action committee in the United States that opposed the Democratic Party leadership and the nomination of Senator Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for President in the 2008 presidential election. PUMA began as an effort by supporters of Obama's primary rival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who believed that Clinton should have been the Democratic nominee. According to PUMA, "We [were] protesting the 2008 Presidential election because we refuse to support a nominee who was selected by the leadership rather than elected by the voters."
P.U.M.A. protest at the 2008 Democratic National Convention