As this race unfolds, the winning coalition for us is clearer and clearer. There are three demographic variables that explain almost all of the voters in the primary—gender, party, and income. Race is a factor as well, but we are fighting hard to neutralize it.
We are the candidate of people with needs.
We win women, lower classes, and Democrats (about 3 to 1 in our favor).
Obama wins men, upper class, and independents (about 2 to 1 in his favor).
Edwards draws from these groups as well.
Our winning strategy builds from a base of women, builds on top of that a lower and middle class constituency, and seeks to minimize his advantages with the high class democrats.
If we double perform with WOMEN, LOWER AND MIDDLE CLASS VOTERS, then we have about 55% of the voters.
The reason the Invisible Americans is so powerful is that it speaks to exactly how you can be a champion for those in needs [sic]. He may be the JFK in the race, but you are the Bobby.
Quelle surprise!
Too bad Lambert wasn’t an Obot. A much more skilled operator like Axelrove would have been manipulating him by remote control to terrorize Hillary’s angel-like supporters by the time the Iowa caucuses rolled around. Thug 4 Life!
Is Weigel right? Or will Hillary jam the throttle and go auguring into the conning tower of the USS Mulligan, in a last-ditch Hail-Mary run against Obama, Palin and/or an Insane Teabagger TBA? Inquiring minds are obviously bored to paste-eating distraction with C-SPAN and the Olympics.
Admit it: We were all worried when Obama chose the gaffe-prone Biden for the VP slot:
VANCOUVER - Former U.S. Olympians Peggy Fleming and Vonetta Flowers were slightly injured Sunday in a collision involving the van they were riding in as part of Vice President Joe Biden’s motorcade, Biden’s office said.
Luckily, Fleming and Flowers survived the latest Biden gaffe and were seen enjoying the games while seated near the Vice President and Second Lady after the incident.
I sure hope the rumors aren’t true about Hillary Clinton retiring and Biden taking over the State Department in a second Obama administration. Secretary of State Clinton, your country needs you: That next Biden gaffe could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
Even though I regularly read blogs written by horrible, petulant Hillary Clinton supporters that exist solely to tell the world HOW MUCH BARACK OBAMA SUCKS several times a day (or even hourly), I still think “Wow, that’s pretty harsh” when I read one of the relatively few anti-Clinton blog posts penned by an Obama supporter these days.
The deal eventually came together after a dramatic moment in which Mr. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton burst into a meeting of the Chinese, Indian and Brazilian leaders, according to senior administration officials. Mr. Obama said he did not want them negotiating in secret.
“Hello, boys,” laughed the President, brushing plaster from the shattered door jamb off his shoulder. “We heard you fellas could use a little diversity in here. Looks to me like you forgot to invite any women.”
“No Negroes, either, Bossman,” Mrs. Clinton chimed in. “And certainly no one representing the interests of hard-working white Americans.”
“Please don’t kill us,” begged Sergio Serra, Brazil’s senior climate negotiator, as Obama blocked an attempted escape by Chinese officials with an impromptu demonstration of Chicago-style “chin-music.” “What about our human rights?”
“Human rights are an ideal, not a priority,” Clinton replied coldly, brandishing a folding chair.
“Go easy on them, Hillary,” Obama chided, comically shaking out his “bruised” knuckles. “They’re really very likable men.”
“Not likable enough,” observed the Secretary, as she waded into the cowering forms at the conference table.
A non-binding Five-Nation Agreement was announced within hours. Shortly afterward, Obama boarded Air Force One for the return flight to DC. The President informed pool reporters that there would be a brief stopover in Connecticut, where Obama intended to “plant a giant carbon footrpint in Joe Lieberman’s butt”—an apparent reference to the recalcitrant Senator’s grandstanding opposition to the pending Health Care Reform bill.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get more wretched than the crazed scrawling of that steaming pile of suck Andrew Malcolm at the LA Times or anything Amy Siskind burps up anywhere (Daily Beast, HuffPo, Cat Fancy, etc.), along comes Colleen O’Connor, armed with a mouth full of paste, from something called the San Diego News Network to boldly challenge both Malcolm and Siskind for the coveted title of “Worst Professional Poliblogger.” Jumpin’ jeebus in a, ummm, jumpsuit, “King Obama v. Queen Clinton — Check or Checkmate?” is perhaps the most abominable “editorial” I’ve read in my life. Here’s just a taste:
If Clinton supporter and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley wins that will make the ninth score that Clinton has settled. And it will have happened in the state that the Kennedy family once ruled.
Monday, in a surprise announcement, former President Bill Clinton just endorsed Coakley and has recorded a message to be sent to 500,000 Massachusetts voters to get out and vote for Coakley.
Ironically, it was Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama in the Iowa caucus that ended the Clintons’ dreams of reclaiming the White House, and started the vendettas.
One major problem with that festering mess o’ words: Ted Kennedy endorsed Obama on January 28th, nearly a full month after the Iowa caucuses, which were held on the 3rd, and a couple of days after he won a landslide victory in South Carolina. How can you write about politics and not get that right? And what’s with “the Clintons’ dreams” and “started the vendettas”? There is no doubt who adhered the “what the” to the “fuck” on Monday. It was Colleen O’Connor.
If you’re one of the many petulant Hillary deadenders (“the ‘08 primaries were our 9/11!!!”) who are joyously tossing around your life-giving “I-told-you-so’s” as you snip away in the PUMAsphere about OBAMA’S AFGHANISTAN DISASTER!!!, please follow these instructions carefully:
This is what I appreciate about the Republican Party. We have contested, aggressive, competitive primaries. We’re not like this herd mentality like a bunch of sheep—with the fighting instincts of sheep, as Horowitz would say—like some in the Democrat Party; where, heaven forbid, you take a stand and you oppose somebody within your own party because it’s the right thing to do.
I’m sure this will be news to President Hillary Clinton.
And we are blessed to have Dick Cheney, wherever he is, keeping tabs on all that’s going on and speaking out when the current administration does anything too reckless and dangerous.
Cheney’s someone else we villainized and maligned in the past who we were also wrong about. There has never been a Vice President, including Gore, Biden, or Mondale, who was more supportive of gay rights than “Darth Cheney”. There has never been a Vice President more spot-on right about the dangers facing this country from Islamic terrorism.
We live in strange, strange times indeed.
Yeah, we sure as hell do. Their blog is living proof of it.
As I noted in the comments here a few days ago after reading that post:
If you stare closely at the image of Hillary in their masthead, you can see her trying to tear herself out of the HTMLs.
Apparently they’ve redecorated over at the wingnut Powerline blog, transforming the former “man cave” into something straight outta Planet Frou-Frou, with fainting couches strewn all about and smelling salts conveniently located on all the spindly, antique side tables.
Back in the day, you could count on the Powertools to let loose a rousing chorus of “huzzahs” whenever George W. Bush indulged in his trademark dick-swinging machismo on the foreign policy front: You’re either with us or agin’ us! Dead or alive! Smoke ‘em outta their caves! Bring it on!
Or just “stupid-stupid”? I’m going with the former after reading the breathtakingly dishonest and delusional screed currently front-paged at The New Agenda blog.
Sometimes I think the best way to deal with raving nincompoops like Siskind is to ignore them. After all, is she really any more relevant than the floridly delusional twits who still believe Hillary Clinton speaks to them in pantsuit-code and avidly reads their shitty blogs for special birthday greetings?
