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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.
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  • @ pricilla

    "Remember the last time the press sold us a bill of goods? No? How about when GW was telling us lies about Irag, and instead of checking it out (as they are suppose to do they sold it to us"

    Are you really so stupid that you EXPECT to make your decisions based on the popular press. My dear, if so, then you deserve what you get. Try reading some history and doing a little research yourself. Anyone who could do this and had a decent head on their shoulders could have seen that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, was a pitiful ploy to looking like the moron GW was taking on terror. I did. Barrack did!

    Sure, you will now parrot back to me that he wasn't in the Senate, so how do you know how he would have voted. Well, my dear - that's true, but he also DID NOT have to outspokenly oppose the war. Quite a gamble if you ask me. Do you think he would have ANY shot at the presidency if he was wrong? But now, he stood up for it ... did the research that you so want the press to do for you.

    It's unbelieveable to me that you are now using the Iraq war as an example of why he SHOULDN'T be in office. People as stupid as you should be denied the vote. Honestly. My God - people like you are why we wound up with GW. Run along and talk to your "savior" now. Some of us don't need a "savior" at all - we just use our brains.

  • Winning and Losing Gracefully

    There is only going to be one Democratic presidential candidate. Hopefully the two candidates will know how to act gracefully, whichever roles they end up with. It would be great if their respective supporters could also reign in their gloating or disappointment.

  • And I bet Obama is a shoplifter too

    So now it turns out that Obama uses words from other people's speeches. Some kool-aid drinking Karl Rove robots might say that he's explicitly citing someone else because he admires them or their ideas. Or they might say that Bill Clinton did it too in the 1992 campaign. But those reasons sound flimsy to me, as they do to some of the other letter-writers here.

    They sound flimsy because just seeing Barack Obama's face makes me think that he must be committing a crime. I mean committing it right there, in front of me, even though he's standing mostly still, with his hands where I can see him, and just talking to people.

    The only possible conclusion is that he is stealing the words he's uttering. Either that or that he stole the suit he's wearing, or maybe the podium. Either way, that's something that everyone should want to see investigated so we can be sure.

    Why would Obama supporters not want to find out if their candidate was a shoplifter in addition to being a plagiarist? And why do his hands keep disappearing and reappearing? He might even be dealing crack underneath that podium.

    The only reason not to want to probe these serious allegations is that Obama supporters don't care if their candidate is a criminal. They are probably plagiarizing, shoplifting, crack-dealing criminals too, or if they're white it means they've "drunk the kool-aid," which means that they literally cannot see the inherent criminality of a man like Obama. And by "like Obama" I mean something that I will only vaguely articulate but certainly does not apply to Hillary or McCain.

  • Anon @ 11:45

    LOL! Your satire was perfect and very funny!

    Except that it's only about two ticks away from what some haters on this site actually think. Well, not "think," because they don't think. It's only about two ticks away from what some haters actually spew.

  • Chatter

    Anonymous, I apparently have touched a sore spot with you. I thought I was put off by anyone who is hostile and unfriendly no matter their skin color, but that is impossible in your mind. It is unfortunate that I have offended you. I thought I was just speaking my piece which I believe to be true, but, no, I can't hold those opinions or write them for fear of being called a racist. I sincerely wish that you would accept that people have opinions other than yours and they are not "code" for anything!

  • SkylarDexter

    Sorry, but the Clinton rhetoric is just getting a bit much tonight - time to sign off ... lest I read more posts about "shoplifting" - raised eyebrows, general look of disgust ... Clinton supporters are just so much more fair, just, enlightened and gosh, darn, generally nice.

  • Socs&Twigs,

    that "shoplifting post was a joke. The author was making fun of anti-Obama people.

  • WI 58/41

    Wow 17%.

  • Heh.

    That shoplifter post was hella funny.

    Well played.

  • SkylarDexter

    I am not so much anti you guys calling people names and all of that - heck I do it too, though I have started as of yesterday trying to stop it.

    What I am against is you guys calling Obama's supporters naive, weak-willed, intellectually elitist cultists, and then whining when Obama's supporters respond.

    The victim play is played out for you guys. It has failed quite thoroughly, and to be honest I think it has backfired. It has driven support away from you.

  • soopergrovy,no name, Socsen-twigs

    First Hillary voted for the inspectors, go read the actual record, don't take the press's record.

    no-name don't tell me what the ass press says "where do you think it all starts? twig I do read everything including BHO's website, along with the Chicago Sun Times, The Tribune, and Accuracy in Media as well as Obama,s books. Listen to 6 Sunday Talk shows watch MSNBC, Fox and CNN and then I read some of Illinois house records. I don't swoon and say wow then go out and vote like some of you I actually read and listen to it all and then use my brain.

  • anon

    i was trying to be ironic ;)

    not my style I guess ...

    Time for bed - it was pretty good!

  • We're All On The Same Team Here . . .

    And we've got two talented quarterbacks fighting for the starting position. Fighting hard, even. But when the season starts, we'll need to all play together to win. (if you'll allow the football analogy).

    I was just a teenager back in '80, but this year is alot like then. Dems had Carter and Kennedy fighting hard for the nomination. Bad feelings at the end. And the winner was to take-on a doddering old foggie from the GOP.

    And Reagan won. Two terms, even.

    And it could happen again now, because Republicans can't govern worth a darn, but they sure know how to win presidential elections.

    So, please, both sides remember who our real opponents are.

    As always, IMHO.

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