My co-anchor Eric Shawn taught me a new phrase. Obamicans. These are Republicans who do not see what they want in either the GOP frontrunner for the nomination- John McCain-or the evangelical christian favorite Mike Huckabee and are throwing their support for Barack Obama.

On our You Decide 2008 coverage this morning, I interviewed Susan Eisenhower granddaughter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower about her support for the Democratic candidate. She is, she insists, a Republican who has no intention of leaving the GOP party. So why is she “crossing over” the aisle to become an “Obamican”?

Eisenhower believes we are obligated to leave this country better than we found it. She told me Barack Obama is the only candidate that has and will reach - she believes -across the aisle and bring bi-partisan support to the issues that matter most.

I asked her about the importance of military experience in the White House, something her grandfather President Eisenhower surely tapped into with all the international affairs he had to tackle while in office! She says her grandfather would respect her choice and had similar priorities in choosing a candidate…dismissing Obama’s lack of direct military expertise.

And she insists her decision to support Barack Obama is NOT a move against Hillary Clinton but a move toward what she believes this country needs.

I’m not re-stating what she said on the show to take a position but I did want to raise the potential for other “Obamicans” and ask you:

How many Republicans to you think will cross parties in a general election and why? Which issue facing Americans would most lead the right to go left?

I hope you caught my interview with Ying Lee, a former Berkeley city council member and supporter of Code Pink protest efforts in front of the Marine recruiting office in Berkeley on our “You Decide 2008″ show today. I just wrapped that interview and I am stunned that leadership in a community that opposes the war believes it can deprive the rest of us from the safety and security offered by the brave men and women willing to sign up.

If Americans all took the approach taken by the Berkeley city council and its mayor - bashing the boots on the ground - what would that mean for you and me?

Keep your comments flowing…Berkeley is listening!