Former Republican Senator Larry Pressler Adds His Name to Growing List of Republicans for Obama

Another Republican is voting for and donating money to Obama.

I don't know how many more Republicans will join the list of "Republcians for Obama", but the list is now impressive.

Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.), who was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the United States Senate, is the latest Republican to back Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Politico learned Sunday.

Pressler, who said that in addition to casting an absentee ballot for Obama he'd donated $500 to the Illinois senator's campaign, cited the Democrat's response to the financial crisis as the primary reason for his decision.

"I just got the feeling that Obama will be able to handle this financial crisis better, and I like his financial team of [former Treasury Secretary Robert] Rubin and [former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul] Volcker better," he said. By contrast, John McCain's "handling of the financial crisis made me feel nervous.

"The former senator added that he hoped the next president would help place restraints on executive pay, and said: "I don't think [McCain] will take action in that area, or he's as likely to.

"Pressler, who said that he had never voted for a Democrat for president before, added, "I feel really badly. I just hate to go against someone I served with in the Senate. I voted and I got it mailed and I dropped it in the mailbox, and it tore at me to do that."

Something not posted in this latest article is the growing list of Republicans voting for Obama/Biden instead of McCain/Palin. I supplied a list of Economists who are backing Obama in an earlier post on this board. Something tells me this coming election will be a landslide of epic proportions in favor of Obama.

Here's the list of prominent Republicans who are siding with Obama:

Elected Officials:

Lincoln Chafee, a former Republican Senator from Rhode Island

Larry Pressler, Former Republican Senator from South Dakota

Phil Arthurhultz, a former Republican state senator from Whitehall

Lowell Weicker, Former Republican Governor and Senator from Connecticut

Jim Leach, Former Republican Congressman from Iowa

Wayne Gilchrest, Republican Congressman from Maryland

Richard Riordan, Former Republican Mayor of Los Angeles

Jim Whitaker, Fairbanks, Alaska - Republican Mayor

William Weld, Former Republican Governor of Massachusetts

Arne Carlson, Former Republican Governor of Minnesota

Linwood Holton, Former Republican Governor of Virginia

Government Officials:

Doug Kmiec a former constitutional legal counsel to two Republican presidents.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell

Charles Fried, Solicitor General of the United States under Reagan

Jackson M. Andrews, Republican Counsel to the U.S. Senate

Susan Eisenhower, Granddaughter of President Eisenhower & President of the Eisenhower Group

Francis Fukuyama, Advisor to President Reagan

Rita Hauser, Former White House intelligence advisor under George W. Bush

Larry Hunter, Former President Reagan Policy Advisor

Scott McClellan, Former Press Secretary to President George W. Bush

Ken Adelman, served in the Ford administration

Lilibet Hagel, Wife of Republican Senator Chuck Hagel

Columnists and Academics:

Jeffrey Hart, National Review Senior Editor

Andrew Bacevich, Professor of International Relations at Boston University

David Friedman, Economist and son of Milton and Rose Friedman

Christopher Buckley, Son of National Review founder William F. Buckley & former NR columnist

Andrew Sullivan, Columnist for the Atlantic Monthly

Wick Alison, Former publisher of the National Review

Michael Smerconish, Columnist for the Philadelphia Enquirer

CC Goldwater, Granddaughter of Barry Goldwater