Letters to the Editor
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Salon's Letters Column - not a representative sample of anything sane
As many people have pointed out - obsessing over subjective, selective and deliberately skewed impressions of the worst people among a candidate's supporters doesn't really prove anything.
If you look for proof Obama/Clinton supporters are jerks, you will always find something, but this doesn't necessarily prove anything. This is even more true when the sample is replies to an article which is picking a fight.
It even goads feminists into making racially charged comments as if sexism makes this okay.
Neither Obama nor Clinton can be defined soley by their worst supporters, nor even by their biggest campaign gaffes. Instead, one has to look for real, substantiated patterns, actual policy and voting records.
And at this point, no matter what, a Democrat will be better than Republican in the White House. I wish Salon wrote more about that, and the abuses of the current occupant, instead of trolling the readership.