What if…?
May 7th, 2008 at 04:50pm Pat Cunningham
Ask yourself these questions:
What if Barack Obama fails to carry the white vote in November? And fails to carry the rural vote? And the small-town vote? And gun owners?
What if he fails to carry the Midwest?
What if he loses in all of those demographic and geographic categories? Can he still win the presidency?
Well, it’s counterintuitive to say so, but the answer is yes. Check THIS.
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1. Sense of Five | May 7th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
But he won’t win the electoral college, fortunately. He will also have a heck of a time winning the hispanic vote. Hillary is far ahead of him there.
2. Pat Cunningham | May 7th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
But, you see, Hillary won’t be the nominee. Obama likely will do fairly well with Hispanics — but how well remains to be seen. Of course, McCain had good Hispanic support, too, until he bowed to his party’s opposition to the immigration bill he had co-sponsored. He’s going have to finesse the immigration issue to gain Hispanic support without alienating his party’s right-wing again.
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