The fifty state strategy is as of yet untested in a Nationwide election... but this is definitely the best year to test it.  The RNC, RSCC, and RCCC (or whatever their house team is) don't have NEARLY enough money to spend on TRADITIONALLY competitive speeches.

I say, why settle for two digits when you can have SIX, baby!

has a single digit.

Which is why Hillary Rodham Clinton's latest race baiting is a flatout lie.

How long a war pollutes.  It might be wise if we factored that in to the cost before we decide to preemptively attack another copuntry.

because the people who were fed up with all that crap 100 yrs ago went west to escape it.

It always amazes me to think that in her childhood, my Mom (born in 1922) had family members who might have REMEMBERED the Civil War.

So some of those late 50s/60s white voters who would never, ever vote for a black man are only 2, maybe 3, generations removed from the horrors of the Civil War.

It's not so distant to them. And I suspect some of them still hold grudges.

There are places in Europe (and we all know where they are) that are still fighting battles to avenge relatives from 400 yrs ago. We're not so different, even though we like to think we are.

from other dark periods in our history.

The settlement of the West was based on the extinction of Native Americans and the exploitation of Chinese laborers.  I can't say that our treatment of Mexicans makes my heart swell with pride either.

We all got baggage.

I am proud to be a native Westerner.  I think we are a friendlier bunch and it takes longer to really piss us off.  We do dress funny sometimes.

So what's there to be resentful about? And the pesky lawmen ride horses and can't cross your ridiculously square boarders either.

a sweeping generalization... ;^)

we actually joke about the fact that only people on the Coasts "get" irony!

Drove into Manhattan, found a parking structure, and drove up and asked the gentleman at the gate how much the parking fee was.  

He came back with an aggressive "What, you wanna park for FREE?"

We all laughed at how this guy confirmed every stereotype of New Yorkers in one succinct phrase.  Of course we went on to meet plenty of cool New Yorkers, but there is a kernel of truth in the stereotype of New Yorkers as being rude and impatient.  And I didn't even mention how they drive in Manhattan!

I suspect not really.

what "crook" is.

Competition (for jobs, etc.) causes friction. When competition is among races, it causes racial friction. When competition is among religions, it causes religious friction. When competition is among nations, it causes national friction, and so on.

Obama wins in major urban areas but can’t seem to win in urbanized states, while Clinton wins in rural communities but consistently loses in rural states. Why?

One relevant fact, as many Clinton supporters have pointed out, is that rural states often hold caucuses rather than primaries, which require the kind of local organizing at which Obama’s team excels. It might also be that the economic downturn has had a more traumatic effect in bigger states, making the voters there responsive to Clinton’s more pragmatic message. It is also possible, however, that the disparity between Obama’s performance in urban primaries and rural caucuses tells us something larger — and counterintuitive — about race in America.

The assumption has always been that a black candidate should perform worse among white voters in states with less racial diversity because those voters are supposedly less enlightened. In fact, the reverse has been true for Obama: in the overwhelmingly white states of Wisconsin and Vermont, for instance, he carried 54 and 60 percent of the white voters respectively, according to exit polls, while in New Jersey he won 31 percent and in Tennessee he won 26 percent. As some bloggers have shrewdly pointed out, Obama does best in areas that have either a large concentration of African-American voters or hardly any at all, but he struggles in places where the population is decidedly mixed.

What this suggests, perhaps, is that living in close proximity to other races — sharing industries and schools and sports arenas — actually makes Americans less sanguine about racial harmony rather than more so.

http://www.nytimes.com/...