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• 1. Sheba  |  May 15th, 2008 at 6:33 am

  The above uncategorized person or thing needs to do the math or learn about poplar votes and other things dealing with winning an election.

  West Virginia is a Republican state. Most of hillary’s voters were crossovers. At election time they will not be around for her.

  Is this what you want for your grandchildren? If uneducated white women, and blue collar workers do not like Obama and will not elect him, what does it say for young college educated black and white voters who will not vote for Hillary?

  The young educated voters are the majority.

• 2. Wester Wuori  |  May 15th, 2008 at 7:58 am

  They’re talking about HIllary getting out because:

  *Obama leads in delegates.
  *He leads in the popular vote.
  *He now leads in superdelegates.
  *He leads in states won.
  *And It’s a mathmatical near-impossibility for her to win the nomination and, actually, has been that way for months.
  *The Clintons are masters at spin and she won’t give up the nomination unless it’s pried from her hands.

  The other item that continues to surprise me is the media’s fascination with the spin that she’s grabbing all the blue collar white vote and that he can’t win that. Does anyone honestly think when Obama’s the nominee, all theose blue-collar Clinton supporters are going to magically vote for McCain, just becuase they’re mad Clinton didn’t win? The exit polls may say that rignt now in the middle of a primary, but come general election time, most of those voters will come around for Obama. Right now, Clinton’s supporters are just mad she’s not winning.

  On the similar note, Obama’s pulling huge numbers of black voters. Does anyone believe that if Clinton’s the nominee, those black voters will simply support McCain becuase they’re mad Obama didn’t win? Of course not.

  Sadly, the media continue to manufacture a lot of non-issues that really don’t matter to voters. Come general election time, the issues will sort themselves out and maybe we’ll be able to have a real discussion about things that matter, outside of lapel pins, pantsuits and McCain’s age.

• 3. Chuck Sweeny  |  May 15th, 2008 at 9:36 am

  Hi, Wester. as far as the blue-collar spin of the media, look at the color of the media squawkers. They’re not racists, but they are like everyone else in that they tend to see things through their own templates. In this case, 99 percent of them are white middle class people, some of whom came from blue collar families. So that’s how they tend to see the world. It’s why the news media needs to diversify so that it looks — and THINKS — like the rest of the people in tis polyglot nation we live in.

  i think whether Hillary stays in or gets out is irrelevant. She can do what she wants. She obviously thinks she can win. The Democratic Party will survive, regardless. It survived 1948, for heaven’s sake, when the Dems split three ways, with Truman in the middle, Henry Wallace running to the left as a progressive and Strom Thurmond running to the right as a Dixiecrat.
  Truman still won.
  Heck, the Democrats even survived the Civil War, in which they were thoroughly discredited, first as the party of slavery, second as the party that wanted to sign a peace treaty with the Confederacy in order to end the war.

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