Gallup to the rescue of the truth
The corporate media, so used to its tabloidism that views the Democratic primary outcome as a celebrity spat akin to the family dysfunction of a blond pop star with mental health issues, continues to advance the narrative that its about bruised political egos, billlions of angry feminists and the short resume of some upstart kid.
Thankfully, a pollster has added the historical context that has been rupturing party unity for over 40 years: it’s about the conservatives, dummy:
PRINCETON, NJ — Barack Obama has been struggling to maintain his Democratic base thus far in August, and according to weekly averages of Gallup Poll Daily tracking, the problem seems to be with conservative Democrats.
Yes, amid the much smaller division of the recalcitrant supporters of the second place finisher, the gorillas in the room that the corporate media mediocrities refuse to mention is the same old racist and regional divide that’s existed since the passage of the two major Civil Rights bills of the mid-Sixties.
Obama’s the Yankee and a Black one. If he loses, it won’t be because progressive Hillary supporters abandoned the party to vote for McCain. For many of the loudest anti-Obama Vichy Dems, they’ll tout that because it gives them a convenient cover for their racism and regionalism.
The gorillas named Stoopid and Hatefulness could never be tamed by Hillary, despite her delivery of her strongest speech ever. Only the cumulative, multi-generational impact of natural selection has ever had the capacity to advance the evolutionary cycle. We’re awfully close to seeing Mother Nature win that fight, though.
Obama can still win if the gorillas forget what day the election is held, an eminent possibility that also should never be overlooked, no matter how hard the corporate mediacracy looks the other way.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I read a GREAT breakdown of how the Obama campaign uses the polls:
http://www.pollster.com/blogs/plouffe_on_obama_and_polling.php
Here’s the other page referenced:
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/08/barack_mccains_margin_among_in.php
The big takeaway is that they throw out the Gallup Daily! The only poll that:
A. Shows McCain ahead of O and
B. Shows O losing conservative Dems.
There’s a point in the post where Plouffe says they are only concerned
with 18 States. Anybody know what they are?
August 27th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
With time, that racist divide is become less and less pronounced, and this election may be the last time it makes a significant impact on the Presidential race.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
So the Talk Left crowd and the other PUMA bloggers are simply blue dogs despite insisting they are progressives (yet I’ll note they never call themselves liberal, hmmmm.) This makes all too much sense actually.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Hillary Clinton’s supporters split over Biden…
Though several held out hope that Obama’s primaries rival would be his running mate, some criticized…
August 28th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I’d classify Armando and Jeralyn and others as the smaller group of recalcitrants. Their records are pretty strong against racism, so I wouldn’t hang that tag on most of them. When I hear Hillary-turned-McCain supporters from Utah and Idaho and other red states with a strong history of racism, though, yeah, my suspicions are going to go there. After all, many blue dogs started becoming apparent after the Voting Rights Act was passed. Back then, they claimed it was because f states’ rights or an anti-antiwar sentiment. Later the cover was that the Democrats had abandoned the working class, even though they ran to the bigger thorn to the working class under Reagan. Now it’s supposedly about dissing Hillary.
As Emily Latella says “It’s always something.”
And EP: try NH, PA, OH, MI, MN, IA, MO, CO, NV, MT, ND, NM, FL, NC, VA for starters. Where else? The other three would have to be from among OR, WA, AK (not likely), SC and GA. If Alaska’s excluded, that’s 19 and I bet the 18 are among them.