DS0816
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« on: May 07, 2013, 02:19:44 PM » |
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I think many in the states carried in the 1990s by Bill Clinton which rejected Barack Obama but would have gone for Hillary Clinton, had she instead been the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee, were motivated by racism. That's not a full 100 percent. But more than half.
The base states of both parties are the opposite of what they were in the late-1800s. So what made the maps for Barack Obama interesting is this: In the past a Democrat would have carried West Virginia and Arkansas but not Indiana. Obama did the opposite. Mitt Romney winning W.Va. and Ark. by margins exceeding 20 percentage points is bizarre … and clearly a new day in politics.
This Democratic party, which is not liberal, should be expanding the map and going after states presumed to be out of reach. One example is Montana.
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