....is that they (and their water carriers in the press) are overlooking how race is going to doom their chances at the polls this year.
The reality is that either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama is going to be their nominee and either one of them alienates an important part of the Democratic base.
If Hillary gets the nod Black voters will stay home in droves driven away by what is perceived as the racist way the Clintons went after the first Black candidate to have snowball's chance of getting near the Presidency; especially if she keeps getting ahead of him in the delegate count while he keeps winning a plurality of the votes. (more on that later)
And if Obama gets the nod, the truth is, a significant number of the white working class will not vote for a Black man. A young Black man. A young Black man named Barrak Hussein Obama. Maybe a Morgan Freeman look a like would have a chance but (sorry George Stephanopoulos) all those millions of Whites still in a swoon over the likes of JFK and LBJ (and especially older voters still thinking fondly of Truman and Roosevelt) will not push the button for a Black man. A young Black man. A young Black man named Barack Hussein Obama.
Enlightened residents of Manhattan and Georgetown not withstanding, just because some people think all Republicans are plutocrats or religious fanatics doesn't mean they have suddenly become color blind.
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