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New Jersey has just gone Obama. (AP report)
Mike, as an activist more interested in the health of the country and the Democratic party as a whole since Dean came on the scene, I see something entirely different.
The MSM and the blubbering Clintonettes enjoy blasting Obama for his 'elitism's' and 'not relating to the average working man', while overlooking facts staring them right in the face.
Take Indiana for starters. A new poll in CQ shows Obama winning the Independent voters over Clinton by a whopping 15 points, in the midst of the Wright controversy.
Weren't they all just crying in a previous week about how the Independent voters are the most important voters to decide a general election, so Obama needs them to win? Before that, it was another set of goals, and before that another. Now many have had to remove the goal posts all together to keep up with him, because nothing has stopped him so far. Now we have the 'he's an elitist' charge, and the "he can't relate to the average working man" charge.
But here's the sad truth of what they're all missing:
It appears in looking at simple state demographics that this Democratic nomination is not troubled by the country's overall view of Obama, or about racism or elitism, at all. And it isn't the 'average American' that has any trouble with Obama.
Hillary and the MSM ain't going to win that argument.
Nor is this nomination process troubled by the Republicans, whose job it is -we all know- to unseat a Democrat regardless of the cost to the country.
Rather, the current trouble is almost solely due to the shriveled and twisted demographics and bigotry within Obama's own Democratic party. Because in almost every state Obama is winning Independents -and by big margins.
Why do the black v. white and old v. young "troubles" not crop up among Independents? Why do they support Obama in huge numbers and not Hillary? Why in the hell aren't you or the rest of the media asking that question??
Or do we now have a Swift Boat Media too?
The real problem Mike, is that crawling out from the dark corners of the Democratic party are those who are not only willing to use every foul trick out of Rove and Delays' books, but are willing to do something even more onerous. Something no true Conservative Republican would ever do: to throw an election and let their own party lose rather than lose the throne to someone outside their inner zone of 'acceptability'.
Obama will easily win the general with the true Democrats in the party at his back and with a new crop of Republicans and Independents taking a good look at maybe coming back in.
Obama's offers such massive potential, worldwide, I predict we'll have a major landslide of fresh voters and air finally breaking through those stale and musty deadlocked halls of Congress.
And a Halle-freakin-leujah brother to that!
