Politics

[tikiera]

Obama is looking better.

But I was listening to NPR  - and someone pointed out that Obama is carrying the primary votes in states that will not be giving their electoral votes to a democrat.

Now I need to track down a breakdown and see if that's right.  Gah. 

Comments

[jamesofengland.livejournal.com]

Having made a little >10,000 calls to Republicans voting in this years primary, I can assure you that the vast bulk of Republicans who voted in the Democrat race for what they believed to be the weaker candidate voted for Hillary. Now, it's true that these were not all terribly educated people, and it's also true that we would try to nudge them to consider Obama (heck, Anya was handing out leaflets for Obama in New Hampshire), but it's worth noting that there are many, many Republicans who project their personal hostility onto others and sincerely believe that she isn't a powerful competitor.

In terms of bringing people together, I'd have thought that his bigger issues than the Delegates were in Florida, Michigan, and Nevada. He's not the man to bring the Hispanic vote into unity with the Democrats and he's kept his pledge to exclude the primary voters from two of the biggest battleground states.