Some people hold grudges. Hillary Clinton supporters, on the other hand, hold GRUDGES.

In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey completed in early June before the New York senator ended her White House bid, 60 percent of Clinton backers polled said they planned on voting for Obama. In the latest poll, that number has dropped to 54 percent.

In early June, 22 percent of Clinton supporters polled said they would not vote at all if Obama were the party’s nominee, now close to a third say they will stay home.

In another sign the wounds of the heated primary race have yet to heal, 43 percent of registered Democrats polled still say they would prefer Clinton to be the party’s presidential nominee.

For comparison purposes, only 35% of Democrats wanted Clinton to be the nominee just last month. One analyst thinks time will heal the wounds and some supporters are waiting to see if he’ll pick her as his nominee. Ed Morrissey responds:

That doesn’t explain why the situation has gotten worse, though.  Obama’s long string of policy reversals over the last few weeks have made the Clintons look like the Rock of Gibraltar on the issues.  Flip-flops on NAFTA, FISA reform, and public financing not only make Obama look dishonest, but a political disaster waiting to happen on the scale of a Walter Mondale or a George McGovern.  It’s increasingly clear that the only principle to which Obama will cling is his own benefit, and everyone and everything else can easily go under the bus as long as it benefits Obama.

Ed makes another important point: Don’t expect the Clintons to begin working day and night to get Obama elected. The Clintons do what’s best for the Clintons, and that may very well be an Obama defeat come November. Such a defeat would clear the way for the Glacier to do a “told ‘ya so” and run again in 2012.