I am curious if the blogger expects those voters without college degrees to suddenly get them by November and thus solve Obama's problem here.

Watch for Obama's campaign to be handing out matchbooks advertising those mail-order degrees, so that everyone can finish college this summer and graduate in August and suddenly become Obama voters by November.

That's part of my frustration with the Obama camp in general. There's been so much whining and finger pointing whenever anyone is critical of him -- are they all that naive and/or delusional that they think the Republicans won't make mince meat of him? The previous examples of Gore, Kerry, Ford and Cleland (for a start) seem to mean nothing and they were (in my own opinion) far better candidates for their offices than Obama ever could me.

If the Republicans were not afraid to eviscerate a triple amputee war veteran, they won't be afraid of Obama, even if McCain keeps saying he wants to be above the fray. It won't stop the 527s. It already has started. And if they think that the Republicans are going to treat Obama with kid gloves because he's black, they've got another thing coming.

1.  Took away with the race card game the AA voters.
   
2.  The Caucus Strategy.  
   
3.  Shutting out Fl and Mi took away Hillary big state momentum.
   
4.  If you looked at the numbers, it was a squeeker.
   
5.  He never got above X % on the white vote.
   
6.  The Dem primary rules were played, and played well, that does not translate into a GE win.  
   
7.  His race transcended and unity guy has been broken.  

Only a handful of people will even admit that McCain and the GOP will be formidable opponents in the general election.

It is like the experience of the past eight years suddenly evaporated in people's minds.  They are going to befriend Republicans, sing kumbaya and Obama is going to be the happy hopey pied piper that leads the snakes out of DC or something along those lines.

Fantasy is "funner" than reality I guess.

It's more facile than you think.  Remember, "Clinton's not a Democrat."  So I guess that makes her a Republican.  And so is McCain.  So they're the same.  So whatever she dished out to Obama will be done precisely the same way by McCain, with the same results.

Starry-eyed, naive creative class triumphalism.  Yeesh.  This campaign has yet to start and already they know the outcome.  Those must be some mighty powerful Magic 8-balls they're working with.

Looks like us bitter Clinton dead-enders are going to have to do the dirty work and the heavy lifting in this campaign, 'cause it looks like the Obama folks are too busy polishing up their resumes.  Campaign?  What campaign?  Didn't we already win?

On top of that, the attitude towards Clinton and her followers, and especially the attitude towards women in general and their issues (e.g., he hasn't decided yet when life starts), I don't see how he wins those voters over. So we have them counting out MI and FL, counting out Clinton's constituents, counting out blue collar workers, and counting out women.

I am curious if the blogger expects those voters without college degrees to suddenly get them by November and thus solve Obama's problem here.

I mean, seriously.

The guy has an unsuitable temperament for the demanding life of the presidency.  He doesn't even like to mix with the press on his campaign plane, for crying out loud.

Does anyone really believe his electoral "coalition" (read: Fan Club) is going to hold together during a bad recession?  Even the African American voters will be at each others' throats, the poor and the middle class ones, as they realize what a token and sham this guy is.  Can you imagine the Rev. Wright sermons we will hear when poor blacks finally realize the primrose path their middle-class friends and family have led them down?

Meanwhile, in Collegetown, the professors will still have jobs and the students will be in hock.  The young people, especially, who are so used to having everything handed to them, are going to take a hard fall when they realize that hey, there actually ARE haves and have-nots in this country, not just the "young" and the "old," the "high-information" and "low-information" voters, or the "educated" and the "uneducated"!

I never voted for a Republican before, but the campaign against the Clintons has been positively evil and it has been maliciously and cynically waged by both the MSM and some supposedly Left groups on behalf of a candidate who has a surplus of both Orwellian "Hope" posters and positioning ambiguity. Frankly, it's made me think of voting selectively down-ticket Republican.

Too much abuse coming towards Hillary and her supporters from the media, from the DNC, from the Obama campaign, and from Obama supporters. I refuse to reward this behavior, I just refuse. Howard Dean was on FOX a week ago talking about discussing Wright is racist. Let me just ask, where was the good Dr. Dean when the media was discussing Hillary's thick ankles, cleavage, or the fact that her husband is responsible for all of her accomplishments? We BEGGED him to speak out against the sexism, and he did nothing. Nothing. Now the DNC and Obama expect me to support him? Forget about it. I will never reward this kind of abuse.

Why would I not vote for Obama? It's not about Obama. It's much bigger than him. It's about my party. If BO and the DNC don't count FL and MI, and they try to abruptly end the process now since she's behind in delegates, then I'd say my party is corrupt, or at the very least short-sighted. If I vote for Obama, then I'm saying "it's ok to disenfranchise. It's ok to steamroll. It's ok to ignore half of the party." Thus, the madness of the Dem party will not have learned anything and it will not have progressed.

Clinton 291    
McCain 236
Tied 11

Obama 264
McCain 263
Tied 11

A real head-scratcher, isn't it, that while the media's theme since Tuesday night has been that (1) Hillary is finished, she cannot get the nomination, the party elders want her to get out, she's dividing the party, and (2) Andrea Mitchell is holding When-Harry-Met-Sally-how-to-fake-an-Orga$m tutorials for her comrades in smarm, the actual head-to-head electoral vote matchups have Obama losing to McCain.

Reading my paper this morning, I learned that "an absence of public events on her schedule had prompted news media speculation that she might be preparing to quit the race," but that "Obama, meanwhile took a day off with his family in Chicago."  Yes, he takes a much-needed day off after one win and one loss, and she might be getting out of the race after one win and one loss.

Oh, and Clinton didn't win Indiana, she suffered a near defeat.  Just so you all know what the message is: a win is never a win for Clinton.

I simply cannot comprehend what is wrong with these people - I truly believe they do not realize that winning the nomination is just the beginning of the fight - not the end.  And they do not see that all the while the media have been playing nice with Obama, they have been hiding a 2x4 behind their backs that is going to make frequent and painful contact after the convention.

I just received an e-mail from a friend who is a Clinton delegate to the state convention.  She was invited to attend a Democracy for Texas meeting to discuss the platform for the state convention and plans for the national convention.

Here are part of her comments:

"When I arrived there were about 60 Obama delegates. I was the only Hillary delegate. By the time the meeting started at almost 7:00....there were over 130 Obama people and 2 Hillary people. The Obama people were less than friendly and in fact when I spoke to one lady, she looked at my button and said, "oh, I can't talk to you......you're Hillary." Then this man standing next to her said, "yeah, but we'll talk to you in a couple of months."  I responded, "wow, I thought we were all democrats."

"This was without a doubt the most degrading experience I have ever had in 25 years of political experience. I am totally astounded of this behavior, not to mention highly disappointed with the disrespectful treatment. I was totally ostracized because I was Hillary.This type behavior will not easily win them our votes in November or for that matter support at the national convention. They need to get the "big picture" here."

The larger problem is that the Obama campaign seems to think this. That's what's deadly.

Obama is a poor choice of candidate, of leader, and he can't come up with a solid position or answer on anything.

He smears with one side of his mouth and flatters with the other. He's luring supporters into this notion that he's The One to usher a hip, new, elevated politics by giving them the gift of condescension (once we get that f-cking racist wh!te b!tch, stupid @ssholes, poor people [and other unnecessary inferiors] out of the way of course.)

And he's going to show those politicians in Washington a thing or two ...

McCain holds radically different views and positions than Hillary, on every major issue voters are concerned about. Obama does not, and his democratic views, and the team he assembles around them should win those voters over.

That is assuming that most of the working class white supporters of Hillary support her liberal positions, and not just a person. I think most do.

I've bounced from Edwards to Clinton to (somewhat hesitantly) Obama, because despite each of these candidates' flaws, they are worlds apart from McCain, who wants to continue and expand our war on the Middle East, who doesn't want any kind of health care, who wants more Bush tax cuts.  And anyone who says that Obama would be identical to, or worse than, McCain is out of their minds.

And they definitely won't switch from Hillary to McCain just because McCain was a War Hero and the Republicans will say her husband was a Draft Dodger.

Reagan Democrats are way too smart to vote against their self-interest. When McCain offers them permanent Tax Cuts, rather than the Tax Holiday, they will cite pro-Hillary Blogs and Hillary's Position Papers to counter his argument that McCain will be "putting more of their money back in their hands".

They will. The Reagan Democrats are never fooled. And their love for and of Hillary Clinton goes way, way back. Really. The War hero? Well, he is no Hillary!

If you cannot tell, I think people overstate the wisdom of any block of voters when they vote as a block & I think it there is no direct connection between choosing Hillary over Obama in a Primary to choosing Hillary over McCain in the General Election.