Former GOP Senator Votes Absentee for Obama

Senator Barack Obama earned the support of former South Dakota Senator Larry Pressler (R), Politico reported this weekend. Pressler was the first Vietnam veteran to serve in the United States Senate.

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 joins a continuously growing and long list of Republicans to support Senator Barack Obama.

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