Of course, Obama won in Connecticut, and Clinton won in Tennessee and Oklahoma. But maybe you meant the other east coast/central states.
Having grown up in St. Louis, I can say with confidence that it is a wasteland full of rubes and dullards. It also leads the nation in violent crime and bad driving statistics. Just so’s ya know.
A special FUCK YOU! to Alabama.
For who they voted for? Nah.
For Obama getting 14% more than Hillary? Nope.
For giving more delegates to the losing candidate! Fuck, get your shit fixed.
[QUOTE=George Kaplin]
They would never run on the same ticket after the accusations they’ve flung at each other during the debates. They’d be a laughing stock if they even contemplated it.
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It didn’t seem to slow down the Reagan/Bush juggernaut back in the '80s.
Hey! Alaska is the west coast! Obama won Alaska!
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW]
Thank you, East Coast liberals. Thank you, West Coast liberals.
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You’re welcome!
And I don’t even get to vote until next week, but I appreciate your good will.
Eh, this Obama thing is just a blip to make it appear HRC fought hard for the nomination. She’s got the Dem machine delegates in her pocket and will win comfortably. It’s a carefully crafted ploy to avoid her having too much front runner status too soon. If she totally ran the table the whole primary season, people would start thinking of her like the New England Patriots and resentment would increase. If she “survives” a scrap, it makes her look like more of a fighter and not someone who’s machine bought the nomination.
People are getting more and more suspicious of the Electoral College and party nomination delegates. If HRC was blowing everybody out, there would be more of the cognitive dissonance of “everybody I know hates her, why is she winning big everywhere; must be crooked delegates”.
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[QUOTE=Sean Factotum]
It didn’t seem to slow down the Reagan/Bush juggernaut back in the '80s.
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“Voodoo Economics. Remeber that, George?”
“Quiet, Tip.”
I’d just like to point out that this drunken OP is a fine example of mid-central dufus-ism.
[QUOTE=bbs2k]
Actually I must agree with mr. alphabet soup’s rant. Hillary is a shrill beast, at least with voting for Barack I could let go of years of my white guilt.
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…and hold on to those years of sexism.
When I hear the pundits wringing their hands over whether white Southern men will vote for a black guy or a woman, I have to laugh. Most of the Southern white guys I know are lefty peaceniks; many of them work for progressive non-profits. Admittedly, it’s a biased sample, but goddam, we’re not all dumb cross-burners down here.
[QUOTE=Bridget Burke]
…and hold on to those years of sexism.
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Or maintain his last shreds of sanity. It pains me to say it, but I’m with bbs2k on this one. Hillary is Evil Incarnate.
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan]
Most of the “spat” between them has been media hype … and the two of them have been making concilatory noises towards one another of late. …
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I have to agree with Tuckerfan. Clinton would be foolish to pass on Obama as a running mate just on his fundraising ability alone. There also will be millions of his supporters who aren’t likely to vote at all if Clinton chooses someone else as veep. And, as has been pointed out, it could lock up the White House for at least the next 16 years.
And to our friend Mostly Uppercase Consonants, if Clinton’s votes on the war bother you, take comfort in her practiced duplicity. Once she sees which way the nation is leaning, she’ll go that way too.
Or, would you rather take your chances with McCain?
[QUOTE=Ravenman]
The poor, beset upon Midwest and South. As a resident of the District of Columbia, I have been wringing my hands for years, worrying when this nation will finally listen to the oppressed and misunderstood people of those geographical regions.
Will nobody listen to the concerns of the farmer? Or the Southern Democrat? Or the union faithful? When will the injustice of these voices being ignored on the national stage finally be righted?
Until that day finally comes, I am not an American, for I know that I live in Amerikkka.
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You should write your congressman or senator and get them to vote for legislation that would allow those poor folks to have the representation that they need.
I’m confused now, white guilt should have made me vote for Obama while Male guilt should have made me vote for Clinton? This is madness I tell you!
(I’m not even sure what white guilt is!)
Frankly, I’m with the OP on this one. Once again, Democrats have demonstrated a pig-headed insistence on running the least electable candidate possible. Good job, assholes. Enjoy the next four to eight years of President McCain.
This thread reminds me of people who think McCain is a liberal.
I voted for Hillary last night because I like her health care plan and thought she was the best qualified person running. I would have voted for Edwards but he went nowhere.
Get over it.
I love how with TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW there is absolutely no discernible difference between a sober post and a falling-down-piss-drunk post.
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW]
Enjoy your coasts, enjoy your cities, enjoy your Writers’ Strike…
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Anyone even know what this means?
[QUOTE=burundi]
When I hear the pundits wringing their hands over whether white Southern men will vote for a black guy or a woman, I have to laugh. Most of the Southern white guys I know are lefty peaceniks; many of them work for progressive non-profits. Admittedly, it’s a biased sample, but goddam, we’re not all dumb cross-burners down here.
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Wow, I guess things are pretty progressive down at the co-op. Does “Democrat” mean the same thing in North Carolina that it does in Mississippi?
Can you translate the code phrase “I don’t want to go to the Delta - there’s too many Democrats there”?
-Joe
Not really, no. Most of our Dixiecrats have either died or long since defected to the Republican party. In North Carolina, for the most part, if you’re a Democrat, it’s because you are more liberal than the Republicans. I know that’s not necessarily the case throughout the whole South, but I am sick to death of all white Southerners being tarred with the same brush.