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don't vote anyway. Because they are such priggish little purists--have to have a SAINT or won't pull the lever--they either sit at home or vote for some boutique fringe candidate. Probably most of them are very young and are clearly quite naive (or, as they would put it, "idealistic"). Obama is foolish to bank on these starry-eyed losers carrying him to the nomination or the White House--as his stunning, momentum-stopping loss in New Hampshire proves.
If he can't come up with bread-and-butter policies to appeal to core Democratic constituencies who *do* vote--women, older voters, blue-collar voters, Latinos--then he is doomed. He is losing those groups by double digits to Hillary. But he *can* do damage to the Dem nominee by suggesting, as his surrogates have apparently started to do, that race must be the only reason for his loss since such rumors likely *will* damp down African-American turn-out in the general election. He is obviously power-obsessed and egotistical enough not to care. I think that's the real story here: Obama is so fundamentally immature and self-absorbed that he'd gladly sabotage the Dem nominee with black voters if it can't be him. And then we get 4-to-8 more years of a Justice Department Civil Rights division that doesn't believe racial discrimination exists (unless it's directed at whites).
All these so-called Obama supporters on this site (and others) are probably just young white kids who won't vote anyway, never do. They can safely be ignored. The election won't hinge on their support. And I would guess half of them are Republican concern trolls anyway, especially the virulent Hillary-haters trying to warn us what a disaster it would be to nominate her. I shudder to think that they really *mean* this demented, robotic hero-worship they're spouting about Obama because, if so, it has cult-like dimensions.
