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Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:00 AM

Obama's historic run heads south

Did his victory in Iowa and strong showing in New Hampshire really "put to rest the notion that a black candidate can't win in America"?
By Walter Shapiro

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  • Wednesday, January 23, 2008 08:39 PM

    Rosenkavalier

    If HRC is the nominee the I will vote for her. But, I want you to pinkie swear that we will all meet on this site on election night and you can write a good long explanation on how you thought Hillary was going to get enough electoral votes to win the presidency. She is going to get trounced and the funny thing is that I haven't heard any of her supporters deny it.

    Sure I have heard about Bill Richardson being the VP nominee (are you freakin' kidding me?!!) and some kind of magical coalition of Hispanics and women but I haven't heard any kind of case (be it reasonable or unreasonable) where someone has outlined how she is going to take away states that the GOP won in 2004.

    And to the person from Utah who won't vote for Hillary. Don't worry Utah is just going to be one in the looooooong list of states she doesn't win.

    I am not saying Obama is a sure bet but at least he doesn't start off with one foot in the electoral grave and another one on a banana peel.

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