The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101088   Message #2230271
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-Jan-08 - 09:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
So your position, Riginslinger, is that in a Presidential election the number of people who would vote to keep out Obama would be larger than the number who would vote to keep out Clinton?

Seems to me that Clinton's got a combination against her of people who'd be hostile to her as a women and people who'd be hostile to her as an individual. Not that that's necessarily a fatal combination - Maggie Thatcher survived it. But Obama doesn't seem to have that second hurdle of people disliking him as an individual, rather than because they don't like the idea of anyone "black" in the White House.