That Settles It
Terri Whitehouse May 9th, 2008
It’s that time of year again, folks. As soon as January hits, I get antsy with anticipation for baseball season and, perhaps even more so, BBQ season. I hope to enjoy both this weekend. Squee!
Owen Covington at the Messenger-Inquirer reports that neither Sen. Barack Obama nor Sen. Hillary Clinton will be in Owensboro this weekend, though representatives of the campaigns are coming. Unsurprisingly, Sen. Mitch McConnell also has better things to do than hang out at the beer garden in McConnell Plaza. Of course, I don’t suppose he’s ever pretended to be a real “man of the people” or anything. (*cough* elitist *cough*)
Organizers are “working to get the other Republican candidate, Daniel Essek, to attend.” Yeah. The guy who, earlier this year, listed a Tennessee address for his campaign. The Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate who have confirmed so far are Bruce Lunsford, Kenneth Stepp, and Michael Cassaro.
Oh yeah, there’s also the KDP fundraiser tonight in Louisville at the Kentucky International Convention Center. I understand it’s quite a bargain compared to those thousand dollar dinners the GOP has.
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So something became very clear to me this morning…
Why the rush to Declare Obama the victor? Because now with the nomination supposedly in hand, he won’t be beat nearly as bad in West Virginia and Kentucky this week and next.
Imagine the effect hearing that it is over will have on Clinton supporters. Now imagine if West Virginia and Kentucky went BEFORE Indiana and North Carolina. Use the poll numbers from last week… Clinton by 40 in West Virginia, 30 in Kentucky and imagine the result. Clinton would have nearly caught Obama in popular vote (surpassed him if Florida counted). Imagine the spin from a staggering Obama doing what he has done all year (fail horribly in predominantly white PRIMARIES).
I’d say declaring Obama the winner and all these “it’s over, now quit Hillary” stories will be worth 15 to 25 points for Obama.
Those are a LOT of ifs, Herodotus, and you work with what you’ve got. Being that I’m undecided, I’m not a fan of the “quit” stories, either.
Your notion that Obama has not done well in “predominantly white” primaries isn’t true, however. And white people aren’t the only people whose votes matter/count. I mean, c’mon. This is America, for Chrissakes.
I’m not sure what there was in that article that showed Obama is doing okay with whites? His 40% approval rating with white Democrats? He’s won four primaries in states where African-Americans made up less then 17% of the vote (and to be fair those are all what Clinton’s camp would call overly educated voters in Vermont, Ct, Wisconsin, and Utah).
[I deleted the racist part of this post. -TW]
In a way it will be fun to watch the media and Dems blast Saint McCain… how hurt he must be that the people he coddled up to all these years are now calling him a hardcore conservative.
If McCain loses this election then we will see the end of bi-partisanship for a generation. A liberal Obama with a liberal Dem congress is not a recipe for bi-partisanship, it will be a force-fed menu of liberal agenda items most Americans oppose. And if McCain can’t win moderate liberal votes then there will be no reason for any Republican to EVER even pretend to care about what liberals and so-called moderates want.
And if you think politics is nasty now, wait until the myth of the “important moderates” is done away with.
I should clear something up, I said Obama owes everything to being black and that’s not really what I meant. [Actually, that's exactly what you meant, and you go on to "explain" yourself by posting more racist nonsense to back it up, which is why the rest of this post has been deleted. -TW]
I used to work with a bunch of Klan members they always told me I could never belong because I was a democrat.LOL My republican family members still use the N word when they talk about Obama..same with the rep. around Ky.
Kilo,
Are saying that all republicans are klan members?
no,can you name me a democrat that is one
Isn’t it interesting that we as democrats have relied heavily on the African-American community to get our white politicians elected and now we have a problem voting for a well educated, articulate man who is black. Life is a b–ch.
kilowat,
I am proud to say that I can’t name a single member of the klan. I am not saying that I don’t know someone that is a member of that group. They are just smart enough not to share there views with me and tell me they are a member. I have no use for anyone who would belong to such a group.
I was just wondering if you were saying that Secretary of State Rice and Colin Powell were members. They might be surprised to hear your thoughts on the subject. I think that it is a shame that there are such groups that still exist.
I can honestly say that I don’t know anyone who’s in the Klan or even sympathetic to the Klan.
I guess Kilowat must be the type of person that the Klan thinks would be sympathetic to them so they would reveal themselves. What does that say about Kilowat?
But of course I think he’s lying through his teeth. He knows no Klan members but he (like many in his party) are willing to lie as much as possible to hurt Republicans. I’m not sure why we think Democrats would care about lying anyway… it’s not as if they have any true religious beliefs. I know lots of Christians but not one of them is a Democrat. All my Democrat family members are atheists… same with all Dems around Kentucky.
(Hopefully some of you are smart enough to see I’m using Kilowats shameless tactics of painting the other party with lies… an effort done very much with tongue-in-cheek)
Anyway, now that the polls show Hillary is still leading by huge numbers in West Virginia and Kentucky we have to ask the Obama supporters…
Does Obama have problems with getting White Votes, or does Obama have problems with getting Working Class votes?
I think Hillary portrayed it as a race thing last week because there’s a common (mis-)belief in the Dem party that they always win working class votes in the fall anyway… but if she can spin it as race then those who want to win at any cost will panic.
How will the media spin this tuesday night?