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nomorewhopper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 11:38 AM
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3. hillary injected race into the argument to make it seem like WV would mirror the US for voting
WV is not racist.

Sure, there will be some ppl who won't vote for a black guy. But this is a run down coal mining state with a very old, uneducated population. In other words, it's the perfect place for Clinton. Instead of saying "Hillary is strong with older voters without college education", she changes it to "Obama has a problem with whites". This way, she draws a correlation between WV and the entire US and causes the "omg, there's like whites everywhere and they aren't going to vote for Obama!".

All this race talk is bluster and hooey. It was all injected into the discourse by Clinton during her conference call. If she had not mentioned the words, it would not be the debated issue today.

This is why she is destroying our candidate, by pushing these types of issues into the public realm and making it ok to use race against Obama. Republicans and Fox are already doing this, saying stuff like "You see how the crazy left is already beating up Hillary for even mentioning that Whites don't like Obama". They are using her statements to tell white voters that they should not support Obama. Sad.
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