What utter nonsense! CNN and other media are going on about how Barack Obama is having a huge problem with white working class voters. When will they start to report on the massive problem John McCain has with Republican voters?
If you look at the Republican primaries there is one striking fact: Even after being the presumptive nominee, John McCain has never once won a primary without his opponents getting a sizeable amount of votes. He never once topped 79% and his opponents (except Ron Paul) have long since stopped campaigning and dropped out of the race three months ago. As recently as Tuesday when largely uncommented by the media West Virginia held Republican Primaries, too, Mike Huckabee received as much as 10% of the vote. In pennsylvania Huckabee got 11% and Ron Paul 16%!
McCain is far from undisputed by his base obviously.
Hillary Clinton’s strength with white blue collar voters does not translate into a weakness of Senator Obama on a 1:1 basis, because his opponent will not be Hillary Clinton. The General election is a new race. And Hillary Clinton owes it to the Democratic Party and their nominee to exert her influence on ‘her’ base when she campaigns for Barack Obama for the Presidency.
To spin a loss against a valid, still running candidate in one state with adverse demographics into a huge problem with Obama’s voter base, however, is bosh, bunkum, piffle, poppycock – you name it.
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4 Comments
May 15, 2008 at 7:47 am
Well said EV. They are fracturing. It will be interesting to see what happens after all of the drama of the Dem primary is over.
May 15, 2008 at 7:51 am
The NY Times today had an article about thie problems with the Republican Party called “Republican Election Losses Stir Fall Fears“:
“The Republican defeat in a special Congressional contest in Mississippi sent waves of apprehension across an already troubled party Wednesday, with some senior Republicans urging Congressional candidates to distance themselves from President Bush to head off what could be heavy losses in the fall.”
May 15, 2008 at 8:15 am
Right blue and muse, we should concentrate on these issues, CNN may want to keep the primary season alive, well it’s a windfall for them, but Hillary is history and the important race is just beginning.
May 15, 2008 at 8:35 am
Just another week, another Thursday and it’s gonna get real hot here…I’m off to weed and feed, drag out the short’s and salt some slug’s…..We are expecting 80’s and 90’s after day’s of cool and rain, the sauna will be in full bloom..
Seem’s to me the bush bunch are working over time to help mcnutty, or are they….I expect a diffren’t runner to come forth at the last minute, swoop down and capture the reich winger’s into a frenzy and once again turn on their own…We’ll see….
My head is about to explode with all the minute, by minute new’s report’s….Maybe tomorrow, our music night, will help improve this political head ache……Blessings all and thank’s for posting..