Clinton makes case for wide appeal

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Who Would God Vote For? Probably the Fascists! [Crappy Hour]
Published 5/8/2008 by ANONYMOUS LOBBYIST at Jezebel
... saying things like, "orlando is up by over 20 with 30 seconds left in the fourth, but detroit could still pull it out in the unlikely event of overtime" MEGAN : Actually, that might make it worth it to me to watch a basketball game. I fucking hate sports commentary, but if it was actually Dadaist in its absurdity... SPENCER : ok and so not to pick on HRC, because yesterday's CH comments were a beautiful miracle, but the longer this goes on the more it makes her say things like this : "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with ...

Great White Hope
Published 5/8/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
Great White Hope Yesterday's Grand Wizard award went to Hillary Clinton for blatantly using the word "white Americans" in a USA Today ...

Hillary Finally Says That White People Don't Like Obama [Please Just Leave]
Published 5/8/2008 by Jim Newell at Wonkette
... Today, she overtly says that white people don't like Obama: "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." Whatever, Goebbels. [USA Today] ...

Political Posturing in the News … Obama, Clinton … Two Wrongs Don’t Make it Wright
Published 5/8/2008 by Scared Monkeys at Scared Monkeys
... As the political fire storm continues as what is become to be known as the Democratic Primary, here are some quick news stories that should be read, understood and remembered when in comes time for the general election this Fall. One thing is for certain, this race will get worse for Democrats, Hillary Clinton appears to be going no where but on to the Convention with her case to the delegates in hand. Why do the ...

Art Levine: Will Obama Win Enough White Votes to Beat McCain?
Published 5/8/2008 by Art Levine at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... Hillary and her supporters aren't giving up on her arguments that she's the most electable candidate because she's won among blue-collar whites. She told USA Today in an article published today: ...

Was Hillary channeling George Wallace?
Published 5/9/2008 by Joe Conason at Salon
... of the campaign. But now USA Today has published an interview in which she explained again why she regards herself as a more viable general-election candidate than Barack Obama -- except that this time, she crossed a bright white line. Citing an Associated Press analysis "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me," she went on to say: "There's a pattern emerging here." There is indeed a pattern emerging -- and it is a ...

Obama Ahead Among Lethargic Minorities, Apparently [Race-baiting]
Published 5/9/2008 by Ryan Tate at Gawker
... Today reporter: "'I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.' ...As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article 'that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.'" UPDATE: There's a recording of Clinton saying this to the reporter, after the jump [USA Today via Drudge, Balk, Fake Steve Jobs] ...

Clinton's Trump Card: Vote White
Published 5/9/2008 by Faye Anderson at Black Voices Blogs
... Clinton told USA Today : I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA Today. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." Washington Post columnist ...

Paul Jenkins: No Longer Staring Into the Abyss of an Obama-Clinton Ticket
Published 5/25/2008 by Paul Jenkins at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... The Clinton campaign has remarkably successfully spun the myth of her strength among various demographic groups: white people, women, Latinos, lower-income people, older people and, of course, the now classic: hard-working Americans. In a couple of these cases, there is a shred of truth to the Clinton campaign's "analysis:" it is nearly certainly the case that she is dominant among older lower-income white women. ...

Keli Goff: Obama has Made History but Can He Change it?
Published 6/5/2008 by Keli Goff at Huffington Post Entertainment Blog
... " or whether he will ever be able to win over working class (or as Sen. Clinton calls them "hard working") white Americans. But most of these debates have focused on the impact that race has on the campaign itself--not on the impact it can have when it actually comes time to govern. ...

Can Blacks and the Clintons Kiss and Make-Up?
Published 6/9/2008 by Carmen Dixon at Black Voices Blogs
... on Civil Rights legislation. By her campaign's end, Clinton was extolling the electoral potency of "hardworking white" Americans. [image] Now for the record, I do not believe the Clinton's are racists at all. It's more cynical than that. They were ruthless in courting the white vote and willing to say things and allow things to be said that caused real hurt to many of their formerly "ride or die" African American supporters. The Clinton's were too quick to forget that during the darkest daze of his presidency, Bill Clinton called out for help and black preachers answered; ...