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House Dem Leadership Supports Obama With Ignorance | 81 comments (81 topical)

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Base vs. Swing Voters (none / 0) (#69)
by daryl herbert on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 02:03:23 PM EST
African Americans are a more reliable part of the Democratic Party's base than working class whites, many of whom were "Reagan Democrats."

They aren't the "base," they are the swing voters.

The Party is going to have to choose between offending its base (AAs and progressives, both of whom largely favor Obama) or swing voters (working class white men and women)

The only way to prevent this is for Clinton to win overwhelmingly between now and August, so that she will have a superior claim to the nomination.  That way, the base will accept that they had their chance and lost.

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That Would Be Great Except For The Fact That (4.00 / 1) (#81)
by MO Blue on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 03:12:38 PM EST
even with a 88-90% AA vote for Obama, Clinton gets the majority of self identified Democratic voters in most primaries. As a percentage share of the Democratic party base, the AA community and the progressives voting for Obama, does not make up a majority of the Democratic base.  It also ignores the fact that not all progressives are Obama supporters and not all white working class people (think union workers) are swing voters.  In PA, the majority of union households voted for Hillary. In NV union workers went against their union recommendation and voted for Hillary. This also occurred in one other state that I am aware of although I can't remember which one.

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Latino (none / 0) (#82)
by AnninCA on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 04:20:52 PM EST
voters are staunch and loyal.

And they voted for Hillary.

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Do the numbers (none / 0) (#86)
by cal1942 on Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 06:37:42 PM EST
White male voters are second only to white women as the largest block of Democratic voters.

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