he's an ethnic Irish  New Englander Republican in the mould of Peter King.

Clinton disses black voters, three times, in the past 24 hours. Anyone else smell a trend?

of course there is no actual "dissing" in the post. just a reference to the fact that Obama is not winning whites.

oh, I like this one too:

Hating Hillary
by John Aravosis (DC)

I cringe when I see anything related to him.  I can't forget his firing from the Globe.  And, I did see a little of that weird MSNBC race thing, where he stood out as especially unilluminating.

That said, to my reading, his comments about HRC's dependence on white voters isn't any worse than pundits and bloggers that relentlessly focus on HRC's white demographic power.  I think this conversation is frivolous: there is never any attempt to calculate GE correlations or causations.  Instead primary exit polls are combined with technical ignorance resulting in baseless assertions turned into deeply felt conclusions.  I'm constantly amazed by how few people understand the limitations of polling.  But, the worst polling ignorance is still ten times better informed than the Willy-nilly conclusions that result when primary exit polling is extrapolated to the context of a GE.

But, whatever; different strokes for different folks.

Okay: so - my point is that since he's earned working class AA support with an explicitly cultural appeal, he doesn't have the same sort of direct stake in the sort of progressive/liberal/Democratic economic policies that will genuinely stabilized big portions of the working class, white and African American.

Racists won't vote for Obama for obvious reasons.  A number of non racist D's won't either.  Kerry and Gore didn't get 100 percent of D votes in their years. Obama wont' either.  Neither would Hillary.

You can't deny his campaign has been canny and well strategized and run.   I'd say that means they'll figure out how to stitch together a coalition.  It's a slightly different coaltion than Hillary's.  Edwards would also be slightly different.

OMG.

This after eight years of Bush.

There's a lot of we traditional Dems out there, and we were horrified by his assertions.

He can't take it back.

He built his entire campaign around it.

Moreover, the current Democratic leadership is trying to pass this off as "expanding the party."

Stuff and nonsense.  It's kicking out the Clinton Democrats.  That's not expansion.

They are hoping to replace us, for sure.  With the youth and higher turnout of AA voters.

So it's Obama's job now to keep up that level of turn-out.

Women baby boomers, and older, who are supporting Hillary are doing so because she is going to fight for the middle and low income members of the country, too, not because she looks like them. The Clintons have that history, you know.

Can he learn to be a god bless America populist and still pander to his libertarians, his hybrid-driving rich lefties, and those moderate suburbanites that probably make just enough $$ to be wary of the costs of populism and are probably unnerved just enough by the patriotism stuff?

Don't see him needing to pander to his core supporters. To date they have not really asked him for anything and have invested too much of themselves in his candidacy.

No other candidate could have beaten out Hillary Clinton for the nomination except for a black candidate.

I'll add, a black male candidate (just to be precise).

I'll add that it will be difficult, especially after all of this and Obama's lack of experience, for the black male candidate to beat the old white man.

Sorry.  Like all of them, she's looking out for Numero Uno.

Not Obama.  Not the Democratic Party.

So the 90% were thrilled to vote for a black man for president because they cannot believe they are seeing it in their lifetimes.

He'll win Colorado and New Mexico and Nevada too.

I think I have been clear for some time that Obama changes the map.

Ad the media expectations changed from just after PA. If you look back, you'll see that Andrea Mitchell (I think) said that Hillary just needed to win Indiana. Then it started looking like Hillary was pulling away there. I thought, and the media thought, that it was going to look like Ohio. It wasn't to be.

I started out at an Edwards's supporter. I am now a Clinton supporter and am sadly watching the complete and total collapse of a meaningful media in this country as well as the demonization of a good decent Democratic candidate. All of which is depressing enough without the fact that the demonization things has been not only with the approval of much of the left and the party leadership but also with their help.

I hope she can still pull it off. I believe she is the best candidate. But if she can't get her message out to the voters and if the voters hear a constant drumbeat of "it's over he won, it's over he won", how can she win?

This campaign has been historic in many ways. It has shown that racism is a no-no, sexism is perfectly mainstream and out in the open and that the Democratic Party doesn't want or need, so they, say, the old coalition.

I understand why most of the affluent go for him, he "appears" to be an elitest and one of them.