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Obama's losses Tuesday in Texas and Ohio - coupled with his defeats in California, New York and New Jersey - have shown the strategy's downside. They have given Clinton supporters an opening for an argument that winning over affluent, educated white voters in small Democratic enclaves, such as Boise, Idaho, and running up the score with ...

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stephen-johnson
March 8, 2008, 11:49 a.m.
From the article:
""A lot of the states he's winning are states that we're not going to win in November," said Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), a Clinton supporter. "It's not a strategy that bodes well, in my opinion."
A Clinton campaign memo on Wednesday noted that of the 11 core Republican states that have held primaries or caucuses, Obama has won 10: Utah, Idaho, Nebraska, North Dakota, Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana. In 2004, Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), the Democratic nominee, lost each of these states by 15 points or more."
If Obama loses Pennsylvania by a margin like he lost Ohio, especially among key Democratic demographic groups, it would bolster the Clinton argument.
It should be an interesting convention.
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tanglang
March 8, 2008, 9:19 p.m.
Somewhere there is an evil little man petting his creepy little cat saying "Excellent" in the creepiest of voices everytime something works out in B.O.'s favor.
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Grrr
March 8, 2008, 11:58 p.m.
Why did the MSM stop covering the Texas caucus tallies once it became clear that Obama actually carried the state? No news on that anywhere...
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