TDAS04
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« on: March 12, 2013, 04:59:18 PM » |
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I was at the last Hillary rally in 2008; I got to see her, Bill, and Chelsea when they stopped in Sioux Falls the night before the primaries were over.
Nate Silver actually predicted an Obama victory in the SD primary, reasoning that SD whites were primarily of English, German, and Scandinavian ancestry; these whites tend to be more socially liberal then some other groups of whites.
While Silver is more accurate of a predictor than anyone else, he did not call this one correctly. I believe that Hillary won SD by simply taking the time to campaign here, and it pays off in a small state. Certainly, South Dakota Democrats did not have the same hostility to Obama as Democrats in Kentucky or West Virginia.
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