netmouse: (nique)
netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2008-05-20 07:37 am

Wow.

75,000 people Rallied for Obama in Portland.





Now if we can just *also* get him to take Kentucky. Anyone know people in Kentucky?
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[personal profile] cos 2008-05-21 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
It's not "white people", it's Appalachian white Democratic primary voters. That is a group that has strongly preferred Clinton over Obama all the way from western New York to the Ozarks. If you look at a map of the country showing counties Clinton got 65% or better in, it's pretty much a swath from western NY to Texas, covering the Appalachians and Ozarks and then a little bit into Texas (into areas of Texas populated largely by people who came from the Appalachians).

I wonder if the pundits are gonna keep repeating that it's "white people" in general, today, given that Oregon is so overwhelmingly white (as are Iowa, Kansas, Vermont, Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington, North Dakota...)

[identity profile] mjwise.livejournal.com 2008-05-21 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Well, maybe they're just bitter. The Senator just better hope the bitterness hasn't pervaded Michigan and Florida come November.