Obama takes NC; Clinton wins Indiana?? Lake County vote still out.

May 6th, 2008 at 09:41pm Chuck Sweeny

Barack Obama did better than I expected in North Carolina, winning a decisive victory on the strength of a coalition of blacks, young voters and college-educated voters. In Indiana, all counties have been counted save one — Lake County in northwest Indiana, where Obama is supposed to be strong. Whether it’s strong enough to surmount Hillary Clinton’s statewide lead of  about 43,000 votes is questionable, but if Clinton gets a win here, it will be close.

Overall, a good night for Obama at the end of a very bad two weeks of his campaign. Still, the media pundits are seeing the contest in terms of the “white working class voters,” who are for Clinton. So, the commentators’ template is, “Obama would be in trouble in November because he can’t win the white working class vote.” Rarely did I hear “Clinton would be in trouble in November because she can’t win the black vote,” which is going 92 percent for Obama.

The way the pundits have it figured, if Clinton is the nominee, she’ll get the black vote because almost all blacks vote Democratic and have nowhere else to go,  while white, working class voters would bolt their party if Obama is the nominee and vote for McCain.

I’m not so sure. The myopic talking heads on TV ihave been so miserably wrong this year that it just could be that the opposite of what they say may indeed be true!

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