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Why was it OK for the Clinton camp to use racial put downs when commenting on Obama's victories, but "shameful" to denounce racial bigotry among her one remaining core voting block, under-educated whites? Imagine Clinton running against a Jewish candidate and losing New York by a wide margin and then having her husband dismiss her opponent's victory as:"of course our opponent has won NY, he's Jewish after all, so it's not a big deal", she would lose the Jewish vote, which what happened to her with the black vote in the aftermath of Bill Clinton's reaction to Obama trouncing Hillary in S. Carolina with its large African-American population. It's fascinating that Hillary has lost her edge over Obama with every single voting block with the exception of the one most prone to reject a candidate solely on base of his/her race-lower middle class white voters.
