Ignore the sicko, bigoted voters of Kentucky and West Virginia, where in the last week Hillary Clinton has racked up wins of more than 35% over Barack Obama. What do a bunch of hicks from Appalachia know about presidential politics, anyway?
The national mass media has already decided that Obama is the nominee, so the thoughts of a few ignorant, ill-informed voters who haven't gotton the word yet, doesn't matter.
They're probably right, but missing the whole point: it's voters like the ones in Kentucky and West Virginia who will decide who the next President of the United States is. Not some brie-and-wine, limousine liberals in Oregon, or the black vote from Nouth Carolina. Obama has had a terrible go in the rust belt and southern border states Democrats must carry to win. Hillary has carried Indiana, Ohio, California, Massassachusetts, Texas--McCain is running strong against Obama in all of them.
The Democrats would be smart to ignore the media and look at the political realities. That's what will count in November.
It's the blue collar, white males who will determine the winner in this election, and they're turned off by Obama. It looks like Jimmy Carter in 1980, George McGovern in 1972 and Michael Dukakis in 1988 all over again. Democrats have to run and govern out of the right-center of the party, as Bill Clinton proved so well.
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