Posted on 05/07/2008 11:58:09 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Hillary Rodham Clinton lost her last best chance to score an upset on Barack Obama's turf Tuesday, putting the Illinois senator a step closer to becoming the country's first black presidential nominee.
Obama was the long-standing favorite in North Carolina, and he won with the overwhelming support of black voters there despite an intense effort by Clinton to turn the state around.
Obama's victory there was tempered by the fact that Clinton beat him handily among white voters, extending her argument to superdelegates who will decide the nomination that she will be the stronger general-election candidate.
...Eighteen percent of North Carolina voters casting ballots said race was important in deciding their vote, according to exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks. Nearly a quarter of black voters said race was important, and 93 percent of those respondents voted for Obama. Fourteen percent of white voters said race was important, and 60 percent of them went for Clinton.
Offerman said she hopes the candidates will follow through on their promises to support the eventually nominee. She said they will need each other to bring the party together after the racially divisive primary.
(Excerpt) Read more at gopusa.com ...
Obamy doesn’t want a white vs. black contest in Nov.
Why didn’t Bill Clinton get out there and comment about how so many black voters in N.C. went for Obama?
It isn't racist though because they were black voters./ SAR Can you imagine the screaming headlines if people who voted for Hillary said it was because she was white?
We need a separate “Captain Obvious” forum.
In the liberal world facts can be racist.
Funny how most black voters here vote for the same kind of candidates they vote for in Africa....corrupt, power-hungry Marxists.
That’s we said. The tables are turned. The clintins own arrogance came back to bite them in the Arse. I loved seeing his face behind hilllereee when she gave her concession speech. That’s what it was to us... a concession speech. He looked like the old hat he is. He’s a joke and a half. He did nothing to help her. Not that I am complaining or anything. I am joyous today. Her scheme/plot failed to do it for her and now she has been reduced to a loser. She won’t go graciously but then again that’s something we could never really accuse her of could we? Grace...
Since 90% of Black voters went for Obama in NC and only 40% of White voters did, I think it is obvious that 50% of the White Democrat voters in NC are racists, which is the only reason Obama did not win their votes by a similar 90% margin.
Quote: “Obamy doesn’t want a white vs. black contest in Nov.”
A mind numbed lib is a mind numbed lib be they black or white. They will all come home and vote for the dem nominee come November. In addition, it is not a good sign when you have to hope to win an election based on your opponent not showing up to the polls rather than inspiring your own voters to carry the day for you. Senator McCain is assuming that he doesn’t need his own voters and will win by picking up the Hillary voters. See above, they will go home to Osama Obama.
Interesting info today from NR:
Who Gives to Dems? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
From Mike Franc:
Pundits have feasted on Barack Obama’s recent musing that Pennsylvania’s rural citizens “cling” to their religion and guns out of embittered economic desperation. Thus far, they have focused on whether Obama is an elitist who views religion as a crutch and whose copy of the Constitution somehow lacks the Second Amendment.
More important, though, is whether Obama’s remarks reflect the emerging demographic transformation of the Democratic party from a bottom-up “party of the people” into a holding pen for all sorts of economic and educational elites. One way to test this is to look at who has been making presidential campaign contributions during the 2008 election cycle. Thanks to the way the Federal Election Commission collects this data, we can sort contributions according to a donor’s occupation or employer.
The Democrats’ penetration of America’s elites is evident when we look at how the two parties fare among those at the very top rungs of corporate America.
Through May 1, the Democratic presidential field has suctioned up a cool $5.7 million from the more than 4,000 donors who list their occupation as “CEO.” The Republicans’ take was only $2.3 million. Chief financial officers, general counsels, directors, and chief information officers also break the Democrats’ way by more than two-to-one margins. The Democrats’ advantage among “presidents” is a less dramatic but still significant $7.2 million to $6.1 million. And this isn’t new: In 2004 all but one of these categories of top corporate officers broke just as dramatically for the Democrats, the “presidents” being the exception.
Republicans do somewhat better further down the corporate food chain, but still lose the competition for contributions from executive vice presidents, vice presidents, and managers.
Wall Street firms, long a symbol of American elite accomplishment, also tilt decisively toward the Democrats. Employees in storied Wall Street institutions such as Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley have all favored the Democratic field by a large margin. Even both sides of the recent Bear Stearns/JP Morgan Chase deal choose Democratic candidates over Republicans by two-to-one margins.
Democrats also enjoy enormous fundraising advantages among well-educated professionals — lawyers, teachers, accountants, journalists and writers. They carry practitioners of the hard sciences, winning solidly among physicians ($8 million to $4 million), biologists, chemists, physicists, and plain old scientists. Republicans must settle for a slender advantage among rocket scientists.
Not surprisingly, universities offer Democrats a hotbed of support. Professors favor Democrats over Republicans by a nine-to-one margin ($3.7 million to $430,000). Their students, though presumably struggling with sky-high tuition bills, nevertheless sacrificed enough late-night pizza and chips to send $4.1 million to their professors’ favorite candidates and another $1.4 million to the GOP. The “objective” media — reporters, journalists, publishers and editors — also breaks heavily for the Democrats. But no listed occupation gives the Democrats a greater edge than the unemployed. These presumably idle folks have dropped over $14.6 million into the laps of the Democrats. Their idle Republican neighbors, in contrast, have unburdened themselves of a mere $9,775. Go figure.
Who favors the Republicans? The Democratic field, after all, enjoys an overall fundraising edge in excess of $200 million, so any pocket of Republican strength is noteworthy.
In this upside-down campaign season when populist GOP campaigners like John McCain and Mike Huckabee surprised the pundits with their primary victories or, in the case of Ron Paul, their fundraising prowess, it almost makes sense that the party of the country club set has been winning the fundraising race among the common man. That’s right. The white-shirt/red-tie brigade of Republican presidential aspirants holds a nearly three-to-one edge among janitors, custodians, cleaners, sanitation workers, factory workers, truckers, bus drivers, barbers, security guards, and secretaries. While Democrats command the financial loyalty of architects, Republicans successfully woo contributions from the skilled craftsmen who turn their blueprints into reality — specifically, contractors, hardhats, plumbers, stonemasons, electricians, carpenters mechanics, and roofers. This trend extends to the saloons, where the Democrats carry the bartenders and the Republicans the waitresses. The GOP field even secures more financial support from teamsters, steelworkers, bricklayers, and autoworkers.
Ironic. Hillary thought she could win based on gender... poetic justice.
I think I saw on TV that 92% of black voters voted for Obama. From that, it looks like he will be able to count on over 90% of black votes in a national election, no matter what he says or does. No matter what the issues, the black vote seems to be a lock for him. For those voters, Obama’s association with an America-hater like Rev.Wright, or his association with other America-haters, has no importance.
“From that, it looks like he will be able to count on over 90% of black votes in a national election, no matter what he says or does.”
And nothing more than Dems ORDINARILY get.
How does he win without HISPANICS, WHITE MALES, ASIANS, JEWS, Blue-Collar workers, etc??
Even CALIFORNIA could go Republican, now...
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