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Close The Deal And Win The Big States
Republican Coat Check Girl - Joe Scarborough: Why can't he win the big states or close the deal?
Screaming Pat Buchanan: Why can't you beat Hillary Clinton?
Because he's an inner city black man with a strange heritage.
Scary.........
If MSNBC is such a professional news organization why are they so afraid to say it. He's black, he's black, and he's black. If a large part of a state is white older woman and men with middle and lower incomes they are most likely not voting for Barack Obama.
Hillary understands the average voter even though she went to elite schools, worked for elite law firms and didn't care about poor folk after the 1994 midterm election spanking that Bill got. Hillary is a woman of the people. She's cultivated relationships, lived in more states and has been to more places for her political career than dog poop on the bottom of my shoe.
MSNBC just stated that this is such a polarized campaign. Polarized by race, gender, age, and class and it's such a shame because this has also been the most exciting campaign in the way it's brought both young and new voters to the Democratic Party. Exit polls are stating that voters on each side, especially young and/or new voters, will stay home or vote John McCain in November.
A lot of people surmised that this would be the PA primary result yet you would have thought by all the cheering and electricity in the air that Hillary Clinton had some miraculous anointing. You know like "the clouds parted, the light came down and celestial choirs of angels were singing" .
This primary win doesn't change her overall argument that delegate totals or popular vote don't matter, even though it did make a difference in Bill Clinton's campaign. That "automatic" delegates have to vote, the the disenfranchised Michigan and Florida voters have to be counted even though she approved penalizing those states. That she's been vetted even though the Republican Party will not hold back in bringing Bill Clinton into the fall campaign by raising the fund-raising connections to his foundation and the point that he will be advising her.
Clinton camp: 'There's still a long way to go'
Stay tuned.
Comments (4)
Please stop with incessant race card. Not all white people that are Older and white and are middle class vote based on someone's race. He lost on the issues fair and square. He is the presumptive nominee that can't find a way close out the game. Its as simple as that. You don't go in being the favorite and spend 3x that of the challenger in a race and lose. Not only lose, but lose big! There is no good way to explain the lack of a good result in this state.
April 22, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
MSNBC 11:08 PM
Chris Matthews of all people says: "Barack is not winning over the white middle class vote, let's be blunt about it.
From what I've overheard he's was pretty tough on the Clinton Machine this evening and then he pukes it all up by saying some flowery comment like Bill, Hillary and Chelsea all being a part of the political fabric or some such crap.
April 22, 2008 11:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
They aren't part of the political fabric of the party?
April 22, 2008 11:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Louisville,
I beg to differ. Even though the exit poll voters said race wasn't a consideration, I'm not sure. My demographics almost match those of PA.
My grandparents were born of Polish immigrants who settled in farm and industrial areas of upstate NY such as Amsterdam and Schenectady. They were and still are middle class blue collar workers.
They grew up feeling comfortable calling people by their ethnic names such as Pollack, Hunyock, Guinea and the n-word.
My parents and their friends would never vote for a black man and add that to some southern voters and I think you have a formidable block against Obama.
Yes, the Clintons have become part of the fabric of American politics. I was more or less commenting on how Chris Matthews goes hot and cold about the Clintons. One minute he's on the warpath about them and then I think he remembers that he might be going too tough against Hillary again and waxes poetic about them.
April 22, 2008 11:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
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