Reply #42: Excellent summary; Obama's Missouri victory was by far the most over hyped and misleading result [View All]

[Awsi Dooger]

of the campaign. I posted that immediately on MyDD and elsewhere. I believe I mentioned it here within the past few weeks.

I watched that race closely all night, via excellent county by county breakdown from John King on CNN, plus on the internet. All Obama managed was to rescue the state via huge urban net in the late counted areas, the traditional Democratic base. Meanwhile, every smaller county went for Hillary. Now, translate that to November and he gets routinely dismissed. Sure he'll dominate Kansas City and St. Louis beyond what Hillary would manage, but with trampled fortunes in the vast majority of the state he's already a loser before the big guns report. Missouri is uphill regardless, but Obama makes it less manageable than Hillary. I was an Edwards supporter, same as in '04, because I knew he would fare best in states like yours.

It's bizarre to see some applicable analysis on DU for a change. This is what kept me here in '02, after I stumbled upon the site. Now it's primarily a hoop and holler arena, and quite hilarious that posters seem to think that stumbling upon the primary winner means they made the correct choice in terms of November, or the most successful presidency.