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It always mystifies me when people equate losing to the entrenched democratic machine in democratic states with having anything at all to do with what happens in the general election
Well, Virginia, leaving aside the way the Obamaites have alienated Mrs. Clintons supporters, I think you can safely assume NY is gone. Given how much hispanics don't go for Obama (lost them by over 75% in California and higher in New Jersey), and given how McCain was NOT among the Republicans who went on anti-immigration rants, I think you can safely assume hispanic support for Mrs. Clinton will go to McCain, not Obama. There goes the southwest, you know Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona where McCain comes from.
Considering we lost Iowa and almost Minnesota and Wisconsin with an experienced statesmen, decorated war hero and comparative centrist of John Kerry, I'm guessing that an inexperienced black liberal with a LOT of social baggage ain't gonna win them over there.
Given that working class women and the elderly and Catholics overwhelmingly support Mrs. Clinton and dislike Obama, you can safely assume that Florida and Mass. and Penn are gone to him as neither of these states has a heavy enough black population to even make a dent back.
End of the day: Obama takes Vermont and Illinois - and those are the only states I'd give him comfortably.
I know these facts are inconvenient, and go on now, impress me with vulgar slurs and infantile distortions of Mrs. Clinton's name and record.
Won't change anything though.
