Reply #15: Not a gutter POST, but a gutter CLINTON STRATEGY. Did you go to the link? Here's [View All]

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what it says about HRC's EXPLICIT STRATEGY to blow the "racial dog whistle" ) for example, "Elitist" = 'Uppity") to court downscale "ethnic white backlash" demographics. Her strategy is to split the Democratic Party by race as best she can, and then convince superdelegates that Obama cannot win, because the white Democrats she's greenlighted to be racist won't vote for a Black candidate!

From http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/hillary_chief_strategist_north.php

'Hillary Chief Strategist: North Carolina Loss Represented Progress Because We Won Among White Voters

By Greg Sargent - May 7, 2008, 11:15AM

On the Hillary conference call, Hillary chief strategist Geoff Garin made the case for her electability in some of the most explicitly race-based terms I've heard yet.

Garin argued that the North Carolina contest, which Obama won by 14 points, represented "progress" for Hillary because she did better among white voters there than she did in Virginia. "When we began in North Carolina," Garin said, "our internal polling and much of the public polling we were running exactly even with white voters." Garin said that the Virginia electorate was the "closest white electorate in the country" to North Carolina, and added that Hillary "started even" among whites in North Carolina, and "ended up earning a significant win of 24 points." ...

Put in the context of the Hillary campaign's chief argument that she's the more electable Dem, Garin's overall implication here is that her success among white voters in North Carolina yesterday is "progress" in the sense that it strengthens her case for electability.

In other words, it's an explicit, and unabashed, linking of her claim of electability to her success among whites.'