As West Virginia goes. . .?
Posted: 14 May 2008 11:26 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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It sounds like Hillary Clinton is on her way to winning the West Virginia primary by something approaching a 30 percentage point margin. As I’ve s

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Posted: 14 May 2008 11:54 AM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 1 ]  
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Power Line is terrific, but on at least this one point you are wrong, wrong, wrong.  Democratic elites have been imploring HRC to exit for months, to the point that they grow ever more hysterical about the damage she is doing to the party, and to its prospects in November.  The voters in WVA, Indiana, and elsewhere could help send HRC the message by pulling the lever for Obama.  But they don not.  What can we infer?  It follows logically that one of two propositions holds.  Either

1.  Contrary to the overwhelming consensus of party leaders and MSM pundits, they do not believe that bolstering HRC (by voting for her) will actually endanger Obama; or

2.  They still prefer to cast what is being represented to them as a merely symbolic vote for HRC and thereby increase the prospect that McCain wins in November.

In short, they either think that their party leaders are hysterical, or they don’t have any strong inclination to back Obama come November.

And by the way, this sort of logic holds even in a place like North Carolina, where HRC lost handily.  There is still a large chunk of HRC primary voters there who know that Obama is all but coronated, know that fighting on is hurting his chances in November, and basically don’t care that their vote for HRC is aiding John McCain.

 
 
Posted: 14 May 2008 02:03 PM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 2 ]  
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chris matthews of msnbc complained about the significant difference in Caucasians voting for hillary in West Virginia.  Yet, has there been a single word of complaint about the vast difference in the negro vote, in every state, for “osama” obama?  I guess we could say there is a bit of hypocrisy at work, but then that is the norm when dealing with the MSM.

 
 
Posted: 14 May 2008 10:04 PM   [ Ignore ]  [ # 3 ]  
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"But there are many Democratic voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania who fit the West Virginia and/or Kentucky profile. Obama may need to do reasonably well with such voters to carry these two crucial states.”

I’d consider throwing my home state of NJ in with that description.

 
 
 

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