Political bits II
(FirstRead) A major Clinton fundraiser defects to Obama.
Later: A quote on a WaPo blog, "Looking at it as coldly as I can, I just don't see how Senator Clinton can overcome Senator Obama with delegates and popular votes. I want this fight to be over, the quicker the better."
(WSJ) Clinton is spending alot of money to try and stave off a NC blowout.
(FirstRead) Obama has almost twice as many campaign offices in NC.
(AKTimes) Huckabee held a rally before appearing with McCain where many of the Huckabee backers talked about McCain losing.
Preparing for the general election, Obama (Politico) starts rolling out a national voter registration drive and (NYTimes) sets up a joint DNC fundraising arm. (Question: How much potential "black vote" and "youth vote" is out there unregistered?)
(FirstRead) Obama has picked up 3 superdelegates since Pa, Clinton only 1.
(Politico) David Plouffe makes the point that the racists will vote Republican anyway.
(DenverNews) Rush Limbaugh calls for riots at the Democratic convention.
And, here's a better written version of my point the other day. The exit polling that is being cited as "white resistance" to Obama has a whole lot more to do with white women voting for Hillary Clinton than with whites voting against Obama.
Guerra-Mondragon raised nearly $500,000 for Clinton's campaign, according to some estimates..... he was uneasy with the tone of the Clinton campaign and was beginning to worry about what this would mean for the general election.
Later: A quote on a WaPo blog, "Looking at it as coldly as I can, I just don't see how Senator Clinton can overcome Senator Obama with delegates and popular votes. I want this fight to be over, the quicker the better."
(WSJ) Clinton is spending alot of money to try and stave off a NC blowout.
(FirstRead) Obama has almost twice as many campaign offices in NC.
(AKTimes) Huckabee held a rally before appearing with McCain where many of the Huckabee backers talked about McCain losing.
Preparing for the general election, Obama (Politico) starts rolling out a national voter registration drive and (NYTimes) sets up a joint DNC fundraising arm. (Question: How much potential "black vote" and "youth vote" is out there unregistered?)
(FirstRead) Obama has picked up 3 superdelegates since Pa, Clinton only 1.
(Politico) David Plouffe makes the point that the racists will vote Republican anyway.
(DenverNews) Rush Limbaugh calls for riots at the Democratic convention.
And, here's a better written version of my point the other day. The exit polling that is being cited as "white resistance" to Obama has a whole lot more to do with white women voting for Hillary Clinton than with whites voting against Obama.
posted by mikevotes at
2:00 PM
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"The exit polling that is being cited as "white resistance" to Obama has a whole lot more to do with white women voting for Hillary Clinton than with whites voting against Obama."
This gives me hope. Not as much for Obama but for the "soul" of our nation.
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-epm, at 7:02 PM
Yeah.
I seriously don't doubt that there's a racist vote out there, but if it's showing up heavily, among democrats, in Pa, we're in a whole different world.
The bottom line is that white women have played a bigger role than just about any other bloc.
(PS. one of the poll questions that alot of this discussion was based on was "Did race factor into your decision" which could mean straight racism, or simply an assumptrion of other's racism towards electability.)
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mikevotes, at 9:32 PM
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