Roland Martin on CNN finally wrote what I have been screaming inside my head for over a week. Clinton today came out with her "working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
Mind the gap
Here is the link: CNN article
Some choice quotes
Now, I know I'm not one of those voters she's talking about, but the reality is that hard-working white Americans alone will not put Clinton or Obama in the White House.
Neither will African-Americans alone or young voters, senior citizens, the college-educated, the "no-working" Americans, gays and lesbians, nonreligious voters, veterans, Hispanics, women, etc. In fact, Democrats alone won't do it. You also must take a good portion of independents.
The independents keep getting left out of the MSM conversation, and with Hillary's high negatives (which Roland mentions) they become much more difficult to get.
Is Clinton suggesting that whites who voted for Obama in Iowa, New Hampshire (where she beat him by around 8,000 votes), Missouri, Iowa, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington state, Minnesota and so many other states were phantom voters? Were they not hard-working white voters? Were they only the "eggheads and African-Americans" whom Paul Begala referred to on CNN on election night?
Best quote of the entire article. Why, when the MSM speaks about Obama not doing well with working class whites do they conveniently forget that he won Maine, Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota, Washington, Idaho, and a few other states with almost no African-American population? Seems he did ok with the white working class in those states.
If Democrats are serious about winning, they are going to have to put on ice this notion that white working-class voters or any other constituencies are the be-all and end-all in November.
Yup. He's got it. Thank God someone finally did. Now if only the other MSM bigwigs would listen and repeat, Clinton's ridiculous notion that Obama cannot win the white working class might go away. He has not won it in some states--fair enough. But she has not won it in some states either.