This letter is associated with the following article:
Letters
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:00 AM

How Obama won Wisconsin

The Illinois senator did well with campus liberals, white men, crossover Republicans and independents, but he made inroads into Clinton's working-class base too.

Read other letters about this article

  • Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:17 PM

    @LeCastor

    My word are you one cynical bugbear! I get it, I get it...it must be hard to be the only one cooly disengaged from the process, the only one to see the forest for the trees blah blah blah.

    It must be so painful for you to watch all these young and idealistic people rallying behind a politician...after all only you can really see that he's an Elmer Gantry, life must be tough.

    Yep, all those idealists are most certainly wrong. History has shown the folly of their ways, except..you know...when it hasn't.

    see: Trudeau, Pierre Eliot.

    Your friendly resident Canadian,

Most Active Letters Threads

342

A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack

A vast array of establishment and expert sources do not believe this episode was really resolved.
323

Tough-guy John Bolton, hiding under his bed

As usual, right-wing pseudo-warriors are drowning in extreme cowardice.
159

Is Obama's civil liberties record understandable?

Was it unreasonable to expect him to adhere to his commitments regarding the Constitution?
154

Phil Carter's resignation from key detainee policy post

Many of the "War on Terror" policies he spent years condemning were ones expressly embraced by Obama.
99

Palin, Prejean: Beastly treatment for beauties

The governor turned author must fight what the pageant queen learned: Politics and hotness make strange bedfellows

View all »

Letters Help

Currently in Salon