Chasing a demographic… Clinton’s latest interesting observations… May 9, 2008
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No sign, as the Daily Show noted, that Hillary Clinton is seriously conceding the Presidential nomination. Which on one reading is fair enough. It ain’t over til it’s over.
But, just when one thinks her campaign is unable to surprise, what of this?
“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.”
Is she saying that hard-working Americans are white? Or are the comma’s between each term meant to indicate distinctions? In either case how very very interesting. Or depressing. And how very telling that the spouse of ‘first black’ President of the United States should come to this. Does she not get how this sort of language is comprehensively deconstructing her reputation amongst many people?
Meanwhile as also reported on the Huffington Post, John Edwards has suggested that for Clinton:
“it’s very difficult to make the math work”
Well that’s the kind way to put it. But with noises off like this, how long can the Clinton campaign continue in its current mode?
Clinton is playing the old, tattered race card and the superdelegates have responded by giving Obama a lead now in this ‘metric’ also. Celebrations are being planned for May 20 when Obama will have achieved a majority of the elected delegates.