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• Tuesday, May 20, 2008 05:16 PM

  gator got your granny

  I wonder what is up with that minority of voters who did vote for Obama in the rural parts of those states. I bet if you took a look you would find that they were mostly young.

  That's the real meaningful breakdown in this thing -- young people can accept Obama more readily than older people can; and they also are more excited about change and less impressed with experience (taking at face value, for the sake of the argument, both candidates' claims to represent those things).

  Here comes the next generation. Internet money, flash mob action. They don't have the same hangups about race, and for them, the gender thing is a fait accompli -- women are in the game, so what? Ten years from now, this thing would be an Obama romp. If he wins it this time, we'll just get there a little sooner.

  And hey -- if Obama wins, old white ladies and Red Man chewin truck drivers are still going to do just fine. You'll see. He'll be all right. And if it's not Hillary, hey, she still gets to be Senator from New York. That's not like staying home and baking cookies. It was good enough for Pat Moynihan, it ought to satisfy Hillary Clinton.

  —pressF1 Read pressF1's other letters
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