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Geography of Electability

Apr 4th, 2008 at 7:07 am by Susie

US News & World Report has a pretty interesting piece on the primary, calling it Academics v. Jacksonians. (You know, those smart Obama people vs. really stupid and bigoted Everybody Else.) (Link fixed.)

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9 Responses to “Geography of Electability”

on 04 Apr 2008 at 7:56 am1snuzy mandrake

it’s funny how obama supporters are stereotyped as upper-class intellectuals, except when they’re black, or young, etc. and it’s not like i don’t know professors who support clinton.

typecasting like this always seems to be popular. it’s bobos in paradise!
on 04 Apr 2008 at 8:15 am2memyself

Link takes me to No Quarter article on Fox News coverage of the elections?
on 04 Apr 2008 at 9:32 am3white_n_az

That article goes to the core of whether Obama is electable in the general election. I fully concur with the author.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 10:21 am4Susie

I don’t know that it convinced me completely (the guy sounds really conservative) but it was certainly food for thought.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 2:31 pm5brendancalling

you’re citing MICHAEL BARONE??
Is the Surge working? Some say yes.
“Sounds really conservative”? I hear Dr. J played a little basketball:

Our covert enemies are harder to identify, for they live in large numbers within our midst. And in terms of intentions, they are not enemies in the sense that they consciously wish to destroy our society. On the contrary, they enjoy our freedoms and often call for their expansion. But they have also been working, over many years, to undermine faith in our society and confidence in its goodness. These covert enemies are those among our elites who have promoted the ideas labeled as multiculturalism, moral relativism and (the term is Professor Samuel Huntington’s) transnationalism.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 2:45 pm6Susie

Never heard of him before.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 3:46 pm7brendancalling

you gotta be shitting me. Really?
I’m honestly surprised. Barone is thoroughly odious,yet he has a patina of respectability.
The New York Times At War With America is a real crowd-pleaser.

He’s a Fox News Contributor.

And of course he’s a member of the Town Hall stable of braying asses.

I know you’re opposed to Obama, but sources with credibility please!!
on 04 Apr 2008 at 3:52 pm8memyself

Barone’s Jacksonians are the core “anybody but Clinton” or “never a black guy” types.

He’s not worth the pixels he’s printed on.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 4:05 pm9Susie

Today is the first day I ever heard of him. I don’t read wingers very often, he’s not someone I would know.