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4 comments:
Susan,
I don't agree with the most recent analysis that says McCain bounce is due to the Palin pick.
Just before the Dem convention polls were showing the race even. Obama got a bounce coming out of the convention, which is normal. And then McCain got a bounce coming out of his convention which is also normal.
But the idea that McCain was badly trailing Obama was never supported by evidence. It was something Obama groupies in the media repeating endlessly.
I never believed the VP picks would make a difference in either party. People always votef for the top of the ticket.
This is why I don't think Hillary would have helped Obama on the ticket. I don't think it matters whether she campaigns for him or not. Nobody cares. People vote for the candidate.
Ironically the best thing that could have happened to Obama would have been for him to lose the nomination to Hillary and for Hillary to have picked him as VP. She could have won. Anf if she had won he would have been VP and after 8 years as VP the public might have seen him as another Colin Powell.
Unfortunately his massive ego would not allow it. His ego also did not allow him to pick Hillary as VP. Not that it would have made much difference. But it would have unified the pary.
Did you read this from Hillary supporter Lynn Forrester?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122109030550621451.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
I agree with her. Elitism is not about income. FDR was wealthy but he was not seen as an elitist.
Only two Democrats have managed to win elections in the last forty years, Carter and Clinton, and they were both despised by the liberal elites.
I can't move these comments to the right posts, so I will leave them here.
I will check out the WSJ article. But it is true one can be rich and not be an elitist. FDR and the Kennedys were not elitists; that's why the Republicans hated them and still hate them so much.
They spoke the language of the "masses." That's the key to winning elections. Obama doesn't know this and will never know this.
I also agree, Mary Louise, about Obama's ego getting in the way. Hillary Clinton would have been much stronger in the general election, even given the fact McCain still would have been harder to beat.
If Obama had just waited a decade or so before running, I wouldn't be tearing him down so hard. But he didn't, and there is going to be hell to pay.
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