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Thread #111066   Message #2341089
Posted By: GUEST,Fantasma
15-May-08 - 08:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: Hillary's Bow-Out Date Contest...
Subject: RE: BS: Hillary's Bow-Out Date Contest...
She has always been running a good campaign. She has almost the same number of popular voters who cast their votes for her as Obama has.

You can't do any better than that without winning the prize.

Say what you will about the Clintons, whom I detest (although I detest Bill far more than Hillary), they know how to campaign to win, and that's what they do.

So now, it doesn't have anything to do with what Hillary does. She may well stay in it until the convention. Now, the only thing that matters is how Obama plays it. This is a very volatile situation, and these matters must be handled with kid gloves for Obama to come out of the primaries looking positive.

There is no guarantee that will happen, IMO. Because the Obama camp has made some really serious and troubling errors in judgment with they ways they've been playing the race cards and stacking that deck against the Clintons.

The result may well end up being that they will lose the white working class no matter what Clinton does for the general election. They as a voting bloc have been treated really unfairly this election--portrayed as stupid, dumb, poor, racist white trash by the MSM. And the Obama camp did nothing to counter that, because driving that wedge worked to his advantage in the primaries.

Problem is, it will work against him in the general. So we'll see what the Obama strategy is for the general to try and win them over. But he is going to need a whole lot more than what Edwards and Clinton will deliver for him. He needs a new grand vision to reach out to that voting bloc in particular. They, more than any other demographic group in the primaries, have been deeply wounded, just as unfairly as Obama was with Wright. But you don't see anyone speaking up for them, the way you do the African American church community, now do you?