Obama doing better than Hillary in states with the highest proportion of conservative Democrats

[jackson_dem]

Obama's best states are the ones with the highest proportion of Al From types (Kansas, Idaho, Utah, North Dakota). How can this be? I thought Hillary is tailor made for DLC kind of Democrats while Barack is a progressive saint? :shrug:

[Exultant Democracy]

1. I bet a bunch of congressmen are going to figure out which side their bread is buttered on.

[jasmine621]

19. You folks keep thinking that the Clintons are regarded as insiders elites.

They are not. They never have been. They are hated by these people.

[gmudem]

2. So Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Arkansas are bastions of liberalism now?

Give me a break.

[jackson_dem]

3. AR is her home state. OK and TN are neighbors

Her winning OK as as surprising as Barack winning Iowa or Indiana. In ND, Idaho, and Utah neither candidate has a built in advantage. Obama's KS numbers are higher than normal because he has some ties to it.

[gmudem]

5. I'm not sure what your point is then.

Hillary does well in red states because she has ties to them, and Obama does well in Kansas because he has ties and in others because?

I'd also like to point out that if Obama does well in these predominantly white states it certainly kills the Clintonian meme of him being the "black candidate."

[jackson_dem]

7. Look at what happens in Utah, Idaho, and North Dakota tonight

The point? Obama is as centrist/DLC or as liberal as Hillary is. That is why he does so well with the most conservative Democrats. If he were as progressive as people think he is relative to Hillary he would be losing these states, not dominating them.

[cali]

22. Care to explain Obama's good showing in CT, genius?

[Straight Shooter]

4. I hate to say it, but Tennessee is not known for liberal attitudes towards people of color.

I lived there for quite a few years. Not surprising to me they'd back Hillary. I don't consider this a major feather in her cap.

Look at the ads in Tennessee that were aired against whoever the Dem candidate was that lost the Senate race. I can't even remember his name now :(

[southern_dem]

6. Harold Ford Jr. n/t

[Roland99]

8. As DLC as it gets.

[adabfree]

14. As a black woman that lived in Tennesse briefly let me say...

It is a scary, backward place....and colored folk should be scared...lmao

[jody]

9. Perhaps conservative Democrats are not voting. n/t

[jackson_dem]

10. Why? They are as real Democrats as anyone else

They vote too. DU is not the Democratic Party.

[jody]

12. Why? Perhaps some conservative Democrats believe Clinton and Obama are just too liberal on issues

that divide the Democratic Party and the nation.

Since Clinton and Obama are effectively the only two candidates, their only choice is not to vote. :shrug:

That's just my opinion.

[jackson_dem]

16. They vote every other year. Why not this time?

Clinton and Obama aren't much more liberal than Kerry and Gore were.

[jody]

28. See #12. n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

11. so liberal dems are voting for clinton?

[chascarrillo]

26. No. Liberal Dems are voting for Obama.

Clinton is cleaning up with Conservative Democrats. Both according to CNN exit polls.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. yet she is winning in liberal states more than conservative states?

somehow that doesnt compute

[Ediacara]

13. Strangely, Hillary does best in blue state rural areas

[TornadoTN]

15. Consider that Obama had the most liberal record in the Senate last year

That's a good thing that conservative dems see past the charade that Hillary puts forth.

[foo_bar]

17. is Minnesota known for conservative Democrats?

(Obama 64%, Clinton 34%, 20% reporting, http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#MN)

[RiverStone]

24. nope - so much for that theory!

:hi:

[mmonk]

18. Democrats in the south usually don't have a choice.

It's mostly legend sold by the party apparatus.

[cali]

20. How is it your dear St John of the Hedge Fund

is only clocking in in conservative states? How is it that Obama is competitive in CT.

What a profoundly stupid and hateful post from a real hater.

[nonconformist]

25. That you are attacking John Edwards in a thread that isn't about him, where he hasn't been mentioned

and he's no longer even in the race, tells me all I need to know about YOU.

Obamania has really made some people lose their fucking mind around here.

[BootinUp]

21. Those are states with the lowest percentage of Democrats too. nt

[OHdem10]

23. Conservatives have supported Obama, Obama goes

for GOPers. Interesting.