Posted on 02/15/2008 1:23:35 PM PST by Uncledave
The problem with that is illustrated by Hillary’s last-ditch appeal to win Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with working-class whites and Hispanics. Since the agendas and past voting records of Obama and Clinton are nearly identical, and since he is the far more inspirational candidate, she hopes to tap into a growing resentment that his appeal is boutique for whites, and based on racial solidarity among African-Americans; the former turns off the working classes and the latter other minorities as well as poor whites.
LOL. The Clintons are playing the race card in a last ditch effort to pull the nomination away from Obama. This whole thing is completely laughable. That being said, don’t count out the Clintons just yet.
You are right. That said, the far left cannot win in a general election. In fact, the Democrats have only won the White House when they run a Southern Democrat, or 2, on the ticket since 1960. That is why, imho, Obama is being compared to JFK - the last non-southern Democrat to win the White House.
Both parties suffer from ‘big tentism’. Our system does not allow for a system like the UK or Germany, where 3 and sometimes 4 parties are in play. Ironically, it should or at least could change - if the parties would dissolve and instead the states’ representatives voted solely in the interest of their state - as was envisioned by the framers.
In order of how bad they would be for the US Obama is number 1.
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