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What does Hillary want?
What would it take for Clinton to concede defeat? An insider remembers -- and draws lessons from -- the backroom deals that ended another brutal, racially charged Democratic slugfest.
By Dan Conley [2008-05-08]

  • question about the coalition.

    I understand when people say Obama's apparent coalition of the young, liberals and blacks isn't enough to win in Nov. I am an Obama supporter in Oregon. I have a real question, I'm not trolling or trying to stir up something.

    I keep hearing that just because Obama won a particular state's Democratic primary doesn't mean he has a chance of carrying that state in the general election in Nov. Now I can follow that logic with some of the Mountain states Obama won, like Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, etc. There's just more registered Republicans there than Democrats so there's no chance he'll win.

    But what I don't understand is, with his huge wins in the Southern states, isn't it possible that Obama could carry some of these states in November? I mean the South has been a Republican lock ever since Civil Rights in the 60s. But aren't there many more blacks than whites in most of the Southern states? Isn't Dem voter registration through the roof? I don't buy this "We don't need the middle class whites, our new coalition is enough" that supposedly some Obama supporters are spouting, but if Obama carried a few of the Southern states that the Republicans usually win, wouldn't that offset any losses in other states due to working class whites being turned off by Obama's campaign? I know I haven't phrased this very well. Basically my question is: is it so inconceivable that Obama might carry some of the Deep South states in Nov?

    -- arthurlee66
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    Wednesday, May 7, 2008 06:49 PM
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