Letters to the Editor
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@AKA Smith
How is it that Obama is the nominee "because he is black"
Explain that logic becuase I thought he was the nominee because he has beaten Hillary in delegates, votes and states.
Anyone who thinks the superdelegates process is dumb and unecessary, I agree. But don't posit this result on party influece. Obama is where he is due to the voters. Perhaps you might wish that the Democratic Party stalwarts were different from what they are: urban voters, black voters, more educated, feminists, working women, union blue collar, activist members of a variety of other ethnic and social groups such as Asian, latino and GLT.
We can now also add (thanks to Obama) many young voters new to the process. This last portion could deliver Democratic regimes for decades. Research shows that how we start out voting, tends to maintain consistency over time.
The main problem with Hillary's logic is that older, blue collar white voters have a nasty habit of voting Republican. They are NOT as reliable as other groups. Furthermore, as Hillary's older, whiter demographic recedes in population, which it is doing now, younger and more diverse groups will dominate. To burn them, so to speak, would be to erode the party.
Some Republican operatives already know this and support more immigration-friendly policies such as George W.'s guest-worker policy. However, the rest of the GOP is fighting tooth-and-nail against it. McCain will have to go back to the latino community and explain how he is going to work for them because they already feel marginalized by some of the GOP rhetoric.