Comments on: From Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi analyzes

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:24:19 +0000

No, just makes me think that the change will come with today’s youth instead.

By: ladkiddo

ladkiddo — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:11:50 +0000

Makes you kind of wonder if JFK, MLK, and RFK all died in vain, doesn’t it?

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:19:28 +0000

I’m afraid that I know a few people who say that they won’t vote for Obama b/c of his race. They are all over the age of 80, however. It would be interesting to see the numbers of the 65+ voters broken down more specifically since that includes a couple of different generations.

By: whtwtrdood

whtwtrdood — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:27:58 +0000

Oops, it should read; “aren’t as open-minded….”

By: whtwtrdood

whtwtrdood — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:16:22 +0000

From CNN: “Clinton eked out one of the narrowest wins of this primary season in Indiana based on her continued solid support among older voters. Obama won voters age 17-64 by 6 percentage points, a margin that paled in comparison with Clinton’s 38-point spread among voters 65 and older.”

That’s an awful lot of the 60’s generation that apparently as open-minded as we were led to believe. What would Jimi, Janis, and Jerry say?

By: DragonFlyEye

DragonFlyEye — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:44:57 +0000

Project Chaos is a farce. People can joke and people can say all kinds of things on the radio, but when push comes to shove, most regular Americans think too highly of the democratic process to mess with it in that way. Besides which, anger is generally a very easily-exhausted emotion which will not suffer so much effort as to actually register as a Dem and then vote in the primary. Most people will just stay home.

By: DragonFlyEye

DragonFlyEye — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:39:00 +0000

Forget the shared ticket. There’s no way that’s going to happen, and besides, if Obama wants to appeal to working class whitey, he can just tap John Edwards.

I mean, seriously: can you picture Hillary Clinton as second banana to anyone? She’ll try to steam-roller over her running mate, if her ego would even permit her accepting Vice President, which I don’t think it will.

By: Grievous Angel

Grievous Angel — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:39:54 +0000

A shared ticket would solve this issue. I also think that the states that Obama has won may not swing Democrat in November, which concerns me. I haven’t had time to go in and look at each state he has won but Hillary’s supporters are, I believe, more likely to choose McCain over Obama in certain parts of the country, not so much a race-based issue as a working class/blue collar one.

By: ladkiddo

ladkiddo — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:30:18 +0000

Wow, write this down, today, May 7th, 2008- dood and I agree.
The sad thing is, these people are either Independent, or “Democrats”.

By: whtwtrdood

whtwtrdood — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:09:44 +0000

There’s also the demo she’s strongest in, the older white vote. I’ve heard first-hand, plenty of these folks will not vote for a “darkie” (that’s the actual phrase I’ve heard the most) as President. They will either stay home, or vote for McCain.

By: ladkiddo

ladkiddo — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:46:13 +0000

Sadly, the ones who I know will stay home. And I know that the registration #s are up, but how much of that is Rush Limbaugh’s project “Chaos”? I would take nothing for granted.

By: DragonFlyEye

DragonFlyEye — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:35:18 +0000

I have to say that I doubt very much if Hillary supporters stay home if Barack wins. They’ll pout and make everybody bend over backwards to feel bad for them, but they’ll vote eventually. Besides which, if the Democrats’ registration numbers are to be believed, it may not much matter if they vote or not.

By: stlo7

stlo7 — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:27:57 +0000

I know, personally, several people who will stay home if their candidate is not nominated.

This is sad. Really sad. Certainly they are entitled to do whatever they want - heck write themselves in. But sad - because President McSame will appoint Supreme Court Judges.

Personally - I suspect that at the conclusion of the primary season when the focus is on McSame - these people will come around. They will grow tired of McSame.