Moving The goalposts again Jon Stewart nails it as usual.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=166850&title=indecision-2008-clintons

Liar. Cheater.

Please, take your ball and go home.

Let us stress this more, trumpet it, show video of that part of Chicago. The idea that Barack might be too fancy might hurt him.

Do you remember that they called George McGovern a wimp, even though he had been a bomber pilot? They got away with it, even though McGovern's opponent (R. M. Nixon) only flew a desk in the Rationing Department during that war.

These labels can hurt, can change history.

"But you're leaving out the droves of women voters, working-class voters, Latino voters, Jewish voters, and so on, who make up Clinton's base."

Actually, once you control for age, those cohorts stop being Hillary's base. The age of voters has been the deciding factor in these contests. Even there Obama is making inroads.

Obama picked up another superdelegate this morning: "Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday, calling him an inspirational leader who can unite the country."

C'mon, folks. He couldn't even unite Democrats in Pennsylvania.

Er, neither could Hillary, in a state that was supposedly her home turf. 45% - 55% in a two-horse race isn't a landslide.

Obama may have the African-American and wealthy, educated white vote, but that's where his sense of unity seems to stop.

Heh, that reminds me: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Are all educated folk wealthy? Are all the young people he seems to have inspired wealthy?

Also:

This is the same Barack Obama who spent years of his life organizing out-of-work steelworkers on the south side of Chicago -- people just like those who live in Allentown or Erie or Pittsburgh or the Monongehela Valley in western Pennsylvania. He stood shoulder to shoulder with them, sat at their kitchen tables, spent hours in their church basements.

He didn't do those things as a famous candidate, but as a community organizer being paid $8,000 a year by a coalition of churches. You don't build a resume or a client list organizing unemployed steel workers. You do it because you respect the people and you care about justice.

(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/it-takes-real-chutzpah-fo_b_96376.html)

If you are too dense to figure out that I am talking about voting demographics and not individuals then perhaps you shouldn't be voting at all. I myself am young, white, affluent, and educated, which means I ought to be voting for Obama if I were to follow the trends. But you and I are the exceptions that prove the rules. If you can't wrap your mind around that then you need to get out more...

A couple of points: 1) Voting demographics are comprised of a many thousands of individuals who, strangely enough, each have many of their own (doubtless contradictory) opinions; 2) Your respective exceptions do not prove or disprove any rule worth mentioning.

For a supposedly educated fellow your reasoning skills are ... lacking. Hint: it takes research, independent thinking, and a bit more than repeating talking points. There are quite a few things to be said for Hillary's nomination, but you and her other supporters are doing as damned poor job of presenting them here as her campaign leadership's doing of presenting her to the electorate.

Reading these letters is like listening to a tone-deaf choir singing from a hymn sheet, the words on which they have only a passing familiarity with.

- Mac

We need to see more of Larry Wilmore (the Sr. Black Correspondent) on the Daily Show. Somehow the Daily Show manages to compete with the news networks on information density. Covering the issues is a lot of work, leads one to scary conclusions (like we're in deep doo) and ends up with not too many eyeballs when compared to American Idol.

How about that Horse Race?

By voting demographics, I assume you mean the statistical data of a population, (average age, income, education, etc.). You know what we've been talking about.

So you're saying his base is more likely to vote according to who they are, black white, rich, etc, and how they feel towards a candidate.

What a concept, I never would have thought to actually vote how I feel. This is simply remarkable. You must be a genius.

1. You insist on mentioning how diverse his base is, yet you claim he is divisive.

He has won in states all across demographic lines, red states and blue states, yet he can't unite democrats.

2. Then proceed to claim that uniting blacks, whites, poor, rich, female, male is where his sense of unity ends. He also has a funny way of uniting Republicans into the Democratic party, just to vote for him. Yet this is not enough. He's really not a uniter.

Exactly what is your point? What is your sense of unity?

He excludes blind, chinese, gay middle age tran-sexuals therefore, he is not a uniter.

Yeah man, you really set me straight.

I'm glad you're here to explain things to me.

Cause if I was white, I could be uneducated enough to vote for a Border Collie, or a cardboard box, or maybe even Hillary, you know just like my demographics say.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/obamaflipsoffcl.html

The link may be from a blog, but CNN and Fox also covered it as an actual story, with talking head analysis and all (and "The Daily Show" had a *wonderful* response to this non-story, per usual).

Does the msm have nothing better to do? Like, cover actual issues?

And, seriously, what could HRC do that would top this in terms of useless, divisive "gotcha!" politics??

If you are too dense to figure out that I am talking about voting demographics and not individuals then perhaps you shouldn't be voting at all. I myself am young, white, affluent, and educated, which means I ought to be voting for Obama if I were to follow the trends. But you and I are the exceptions that prove the rules. If you can't wrap your mind around that then you need to get out more...