Letters to the Editor
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I got her name wrong and called her "Powers." I did read her book A Problem from Hell years ago and it was brilliant. She shows more intellectual prowess in the book than Hillary ever could.
I work around a lot of educated people who do not habitually drink lattes. Most of them support Obama. The few Clinton supporters are all ladies who, in my estimation, are less obsessively well read about politics and the world. As far as I can tell, Hillary's prime appeal is her womanhood. Even considering that, most of the women here are for Obama anyway. In my experience, there really does seem to be an inverse correlation between knowledge/education and a tendency to support Hillary. The data on the primaries seems to point to the same conclusion.
I think that a microcosm for this whole, fallacious mindset can be found in that Gloria Steinem Op-Ed where she basically said that white women have it worse than black men. A lot of high school students could rattle off statistics about black man vs white woman poverty rates, college enrollment, prison "enrollment" etc. that would disprove Steinem's craziness.
When someone who is as educated as Steinem and who speaks for as many people as she does, says something so absurd, it opens a door into the flawed thinking of a large number of people.
Thank God Obama's lead in delegates was basically untouched by Ohio and Texas. In all likelihood, what Hillary is doing is only hurting Obama in the general, not that that isn't bad and not that she probably cares.