The Nation: Purple Obama

[tabasco]

"Purple America is ready, and eager, for Obama. His popularity with young voters, independents and suburbanites could very well translate into general-election victory. As for McCain--who is being hectored to pander even more to the GOP's right-wingnuts, which will only further alienate his former independent fans--his chances seem to boil down to one increasingly improbable headline: Hillary Clinton Wins Democratic Nomination."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/moser

[pocoloco]

1. Yep

Obama over McCain McCain over Hillary

[babylonsister]

2. "Obama won pretty much every constituency he's presumed to be weakest with"

This man is a uniter, and that's exactly what we need!


Obama won pretty much every constituency he's presumed to be weakest with: women (60 percent in rough exit polls), rural voters (narrowly), Latinos (54 percent) and folks with no college education (63 percent). He won handily among those who think Iraq matters most, who think healthcare matters most, who think the economy matters most. He took more than 60 percent of the vote among those making both less and more than $50,000. Obama narrowly carried the white vote in Virginia, building on his momentum among the notoriously stubborn Caucasian Democrats of Dixie, having won 25 percent of white votes in South Carolina (when the race was still three-way) and then bucked it up to 43 percent in Georgia on Super Tuesday. He also won the stubbornest demographic in Virginia: whites over 65. Only white women went for Hillary Clinton, and by nowhere near Obama's eighteen-point margin among white men.

[tabasco]

3. H. Clinton represents more of the same.

I think people really want to start cleaning up this awful mess the republicans have created.

More and more people see Obama as the best leader. The more people get to know him, the more they like him.

[Deja Q]

4. The Onion would call him a Purple People Eater.

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[housewolf]

5. Bwahahaha

Thanks for the laugh!

:rofl: