TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime

Mostly the Dem issue (5.00 / 9) (#31)
by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 03:16:24 PM EST

And Obama is not Bill Clinton in the sense of appealing to working class whites.

There is more John Kerry in him than Bill Clinton.

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: Obama Had Been Bleeding (5.00 / 5) (#67)
by BDB on Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 03:39:49 PM EST

white support in many of these states near the end of the primaries. Case in point, South Dakota. He had projected a 10 point win and lost by 15 (or was it the other way around?). Anyway, there was a 25 point swing between what Obama was projecting in February and what he got in June and it was against Obama. Obama was also supposed to win Indiana and he didn't. It was close, but the main reason it was so close was the high turnout among AAs. Look at the exit polling among whites in Indiana, NC, and SD on the Wright/Trinity issue - those who thought it was important went overwhelmingly for Hillary and quite a few whites thought it was somewhat important. And that was among mostly white Democrats.
Obama is very much a John Kerry type candidate only with more charisma and less experience. I think there's a good chance the weakness of the GOP will result in his election, but McCain can't attract crowds or raise money and yet he's still close in the polls. If McCain ever finds a way to get the GOP excited about his candidacy, Obama could be in real trouble.

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: tin foiling it (none / 0) (#91)
by Salo on Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 03:53:12 PM EST

I hope these polling outfits are not building him up for a fall.

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