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TBF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 01:00 PM
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56. The Clinton Racism --
It was obvious in South Carolina (and perhaps started sooner), and has just gotten worse as Hillary & Bill have moved from state to state. Hillary believes she can win the Ronald Reagan "swing voters" (low income, rural, sometimes racist) by using this method.

There are several problems with her strategy. First of all it's been nearly 25 years since Reagan ran for the presidency. Things have changed significantly. Many of those people have lost their jobs due to NAFTA (which her husband passed), some are very religious and will vote according to their beliefs on opposing abortion etc... so she isn't going to get their votes anyway, and some just are not going to fall for the race-baiting. Just because you are blue-collar and live in a rural area doesn't mean you are racist and illiterate. People are educated, use the internet to keep up with world affairs, and on a personal level their families may be very diverse - whether they live in the city or country.

This is why Hillary is losing - she has miscalculated how people feel in this country, and how they think (which is more than she gives them credit for). She is an arrogant elitist convinced that she needs to save the world, and has decided she will crush anything in her path. In her mind the end justifies the means. Her only hope is that come next January she is charge, no matter what it takes.

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