Reply #14: I don't know [View All]

the real reason WV really voted for Hillary. Nobody does. The facts as we know them are that she has been in there night and day telling the voters that Obama is an elitist and doesn't care about poor people. Barack Obama didn't go there to campaign and try to debunk that, which he probably could have, and that probably has a lot to do with how the vote turned out. That's the point Andrea Mitchell, the wife of Alan Greenspan, made. And of course economists get labeled as elitists, for example by Hillary, because they know stuff about economics. Ignorance is Strength.

While many assume racism because of WV's demographic, there aren't any exit polls that show them saying "I voted against Obama because he's black," or "I would never vote for a black president." What we do have is a Clinton strategist saying, "blacks and eggheads are not enough," which is to imply that the majority of whites or uneducated people will deliberately NOT vote for a candidate who is favored by the blacks or educated people. It implies that because if it were not the case, then there would be no reason to criticize Obama's base. And furthermore we have Hillary saying (paraphrase because I forget the exact quote), "I have a broader base... hard working white voters, voters without college education," which implies the SAME THING. So there you have it. According to HILLARY CLINTON, the people of WV are racist.

I don't know if that's true at all. I sure hope not. I've never been to West Virginia and I won't speculate. But this same statement in several states has been the basis for Hillary Clinton's whole argument that Obama is unelectable despite being ahead of her in all these other primaries. And at the same time, she and her supporters denounce the argument that people who vote for her over Obama are racist. I feel for them, the people who support Hillary because of the positive things they believe about her. I did myself, until not so long ago. But I do NOT feel for Hillary wanting to have her cake and eat it too. SHE is the one who's been insulting her supporters, not Obama.