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The majority of working class southern and appalachian white voters aren't voting for Clinton
They are voting against Obama. Proof positive of that was the 8% who couldn't bear to vote for either of them in North Carolina, even if it meant Obama getting a better margin.
Let's take a trip down memory lane to just 2 months ago. Remember when these same "working class white folks" were swarming to Obama's banner of hope and change, and it was the elites and "minorities" (Latinos) who were winning states for Clinton? Remember those inverted electoral maps in Wyoming and Idaho, where the cities went for Clinton and the countryside to Obama?
How did things change so dramatically?
They never did. They listened to Clinton and Obama, and made a decision based on the candidates and what they proposed.
While many of the folks who voted for Clinton in the south gave Obama a chance to speak his message and simply considered Clinton the better candidate, I believe the majority never gave him a chance, and made up their minds about him without once listening to him.
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It should also be noted that "working class" is being defined as those making less than a certain amount and above a certain age. It says nothing about a maximum age, which means that a large portion of her "working class" is retirees, who don't work.
May 8, 2008 8:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good point, that would include a good number of quite well off Hillary supporters inside her key demographic (55-65).
May 8, 2008 8:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let's not join Hillary Clinton in making off the cuff comments about select groups of people. The reason we love Obama is he says that no matter what hard feelings some may have, his aim is to REACH OUT in a more effective way to these very folks and listen to their concerns and genuinely try to communicate. If Clinton followed the wisdom of his words, she'd be the one meeting with the black community at every opportunity, trying to BUILD her coalition instead of narrowly defining it.
Her loss...his gain.
May 8, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wish, with all my heart, that Barack could sit down with every American, in their kitchen, and just talk with them...about his life, his mother, his hopes, his dreams for America...
He'd win them all over.
Guess it's up to us to help him, eh?
May 8, 2008 8:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama has a wonderful message that makes believers out of many if not most of the people who listen to it.
The point I am making isn't that a particular group of people are racist, or hate him or whatever, but that they are unwilling to listen.
They hear what he's saying, but they're not listening. They listen to their fears about Obama, not the man.
The challenge I believe is breaking through that wall somehow, but I don't know if it's possible.
May 8, 2008 9:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I tell you now.
A Civil War may be in-route to the United States. And I am not sure if its a good or bad thing.
The latter is what scares me.
May 8, 2008 10:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
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