Most. Hysterical. Headline. Ever.
From Mother Jones' Magazine's email newsletter today: "All Hillary's Base Are Belong to Barack." Snort.
In it, David Corn and Jonathan Stein contend that Hillary Clinton should be worried, "not because Barack Obama won the Potomac Primaries, but because of how he won them." Interesting. I'm not actually convinced and while I support Obama passionately, I still believe Sen. Clinton could pull this out. Only a fool would count her out now. Here's their thinking, though:
"It is so wonderful to be here." So declared Hillary Clinton in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday evening, as vote results being tallied in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia showed she was being clobbered by Barack Obama. But worse for Clinton was that she was losing another clump of post-Super Tuesday primaries by large margins (51 points in D.C., 29 points in Virginia, 23 points in Maryland) because her base voters were abandoning her. The message of the night: Clinton should be scared. And perhaps John McCain should be, too.
Obama won the Potomac Primaries by eating into Clinton's core. In the Super Tuesday states, Obama won 43 percent of women. He took 55 percent in Maryland and 60 percent in Virginia. In the Super Tuesday states, Obama was supported by only 35 percent of voters over 65 years of age. In Maryland and Virginia, a touch more than 50 percent voted for him.
Within all the Democratic constituencies Clinton relies upon, Obama not only made gains, but won. He won among voters making less than $50,000 a year. He beat her among those with no college degrees. He won Latinos. He won Catholics. He won white men by a substantial margin. And Obama triumphed in every part of that state: urban, suburban and rural. Of the subdivided demographic groups, only white women stood with Clinton tonight. The rest of her base—at least in these states—collapsed.
Read the rest here.
I must say that as a Hillary supporter I am gradually dropping a lot of blogs from my reading list. I get it, all right. A lot of people prefer Obama. And I expect to see some discussion on blogs that cover politics like thsi one does. But the sheer weight of adulation across blogs on all subjects is too much IMHO. It is starting to sound a bit like 'you are not one of us. You do not believe' bodering upon 'if you do not believe you can leave'. Which indeed I can. I think some of the feeling Obama is sweeping public opinion is just that a lot of the nay sayers have got sick of the hymn-singing and left the room.
Posted by: emily | 19 February 2008 at 09:47 AM