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I'm sure that her people will spin this, but how demoralizing can it be when you're the only person on the ballot and barely eek out 50%?
I will point out that None of the Above won Detroit. None of the Above won Flint. None of the Above, I think, won Lansing too. None of the Above also did well in rural areas. Clinton's support was in the white suburbs.
I will say this now: Hillary Clinton is unelectable. She can't broaden her appeal, and she has alienated important components of her own coalition in the primaries.
But the good news is that it appears like her stunts have back fired. They appeared to be cynical ploys to Obama's white supporters, and they infuriated Clinton's own black supporters. The result: Obama's white support held steady, while Clinton's black support tanked and shifted to Obama=both Washington Post and Zogby showing that the election is now a dead heat.
If Obama can win Nevada, the narrative will change. The Clintons have played all the sleaze cards in the deck. The narrative will shift towards this being a backlash against them. And if Obama can give another victory speech, the Clintons won't be able to get the media to shut up so easily. In the end, that is what this was about.
On the night of the caucus in Iowa, Obama was something that Hillary Clinton can never be. People were talking about that speech. It was a bad thing for Clinton, so she started a one-sided bogus feud. The media ate it up. I don't think they will the next time. If Obama can only win on Saturday, I think it might get to a place where Hillary can't recover. I'm praying he can pull Nevada--a difficult state for him--off.
“I know how hard it is going to be to provide health care to every American. … to fix our schools or reduce poverty. I know because I fought these fights,” the former civil rights lawyer said.
If this team was so brilliant the first time up, how come this “former civil rights lawyer” and his wife did nothing to “fix” schools beyond throwing money at them and rejecting vouchers - real choice for poor people trapped in bad schools - out-of-hand? How come they did nothing about Social Security or Senior Prescription Plans?
You are so right about the importance of a Nevada win. It will change the narrative, especially after he gives the victory speech. We all know Barack make it do what it do when it's time to get up there and get his speak on! LOL, and like you said, that's something Hillary can't do. It's nothing that Bill can get for her and it's not something she can learn.
And if he wins Nevada, I hope he can take the Latino vote. That will shut up the haters claiming they won't vote for a black person.
A.B.C=Anybody But Clinton!
I was listening to NPR on 1/16 and the chief economics editor for the WSJ stated that, of the 3 Dem candidates' stimulus suggestions, Obama's appeared to be the one that made the most sense. I believe Obama's suggestion was to route $$ directly to tax payers (about $250), whereas Clinton and Edwards were more in favor of an indirect allocation of funds that had less of a chance making their way to consumers.