Annie Oakley Outguns Cleavon Little
For all the deep analysis (not) done about these supposed weaknesses, Adam Nagourney’s reporting team has missed the actual improvements made.
Consider what Al Giordano discovered within the exit polling:
Clinton’s margin among all voters in Ohio (10.5 percent) diminished by the time she got to Pennsylvania.
The margin among registered Democrats (a 14 percent lead in Ohio) diminished by at least 39 percent in Pennsylvania.
Among white registered Democrats (70 percent of them in Ohio) - the demographic that the pastor-bashing and bitter-posturing was aimed at - Senator Clinton lost 24 percent (down to 53 percent in Pennsylvania).
Among African-American registered Democrats (14 percent of them in Ohio) she lost 42 percent of her previous support (down to 8 percent in Pennsylvania).
All the posturing and negativity didn’t gain her a single yard.
In fact, Senator Clinton lost ground in every one of those key foundations of her former base vote.
Whether or not the commercial media spins it that way - in her campaign’s lexicon - “doesn’t matter.”
And ye shall know the dumbest and slowest - and intentionally dishonest - political reporters, pundits, bloggers (and former presidential candidates and spouses) by those that argue otherwise.
The hour has come for the undeclared to declare, for the uncommitted to commit, because when you sit on a picket fence, those pickets end up where the sun don’t shine. And it can be painful.
Converse to Senator Clinton’s losses tonight in all those statistics mentioned above, Obama gained an equal and opposite amount of support. That’s the gold standard that the smart superdelegates and journalists can see.
The rest are just lining up to be cast aside. Well, “if this be war, then let it begin here.”
And sure enough, another superdelegate endorsement appeared, harking to Al’s call.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 am
Speaking as one of the “dumbest and slowest”, if Al Giardano thinks that he can make comparisons from one state to another about how a candidate’s strength has diminished or risen in a given category, he has no business calling anyone dumb. Or slow.