The New Clinton Strategy: Operation Racial Division
May 8, 2008
Absolutely amazing. Hillary Clinton in USA Today:
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me. There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.
Wow. So, now the strategy is to emphasize the Rev. Wright thing in racially divided southern states and then when despite those efforts Obama gets nearly forty percent of the white vote, she will state that whites won’t vote for him. But she’s not trying to divide the party? Riigggghhhhhtttttt. She’s absolutely shameless. The NY Times headline (her hometown paper) reads “Clinton Touts White Support.” And her aid, Paul Begala, said live on CNN that the party could not win in November with just “eggheads and African-Americans.” This is not a coincidence but a concerted strategy because her chief pollster Geoff Garin made the same point on conference call yesterday. They will try to convince the superdelegates that working-class whites won’t vote for a black man.
Again the question is, who is going to perform the intervention? I am so ready for the end of all that. No more Begala, Clinton, Carville, and the rest of the gang. Obama advisors like Steve Hildebrand and David Plouffe will replace them–and these are people we don’t even know because they don’t like publicity. Imagine that. But we shouldn’t be surprised by all of this. Taking power and influence away from corrupted people is never a pretty thing. Especially when they think it is rightfully theirs. But their desperation communicates one indisputable fact: their days at the throne are numbered. Praise be to God.
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May 8th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I kind of like the theory that Al Gore is going to come in riding on a white horse and save the day. I don’t remember which CNN commentator came up with that, but it cracked me up.
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When you actually take a look at the AP article [which I assume you didn't] you’ll realize that Sen. Clinton was just repeating the reported facts.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_WORKING_CLASS_WHITES?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
“Barack Obama’s problem winning votes from working-class whites is showing no sign of going away, and their impression of him is getting worse.”
“In an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll in April, 53 percent of whites who have not completed college viewed Obama unfavorably, up a dozen percentage points from November. During that period, the numbers viewing Clinton and Republican candidate John McCain negatively have stayed about even.
“The April poll - conducted before the Pennsylvania contest - also showed an overwhelming preference for Clinton over Obama among working-class whites. They favored her over him by 39 percentage points, compared to a 10-point Obama lead among white college graduates. Obama also did worse than Clinton among those less-educated voters when matched up against Republican candidate John McCain.”
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