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28
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Obama’s losses Tuesday in Texas and Ohio — coupled with his Feb. 5 defeats in California, New York and New Jersey — have not only shown the strategy’s downside. They have also given supporters of Clinton an opening for an argument that winning over affluent, educated white voters in small Democratic enclaves, such as Boise, Idaho, and Salt Lake City, and running up the score with African Americans in the Republican South exaggerate his strengths in states that will not vote Democratic in the fall.
Obama’s losses Tuesday in Texas and Ohio — coupled with his Feb. 5 defeats in California, New York and New Jersey — have not only shown the strategy’s downside. They have also given supporters of Clinton an opening for an argument that winning over affluent, educated white voters in small Democratic enclaves, such as Boise, Idaho, and Salt Lake City, and running up the score with African Americans in the Republican South exaggerate his strengths in states that will not vote Democratic in the fall.
If Obama becomes the Democratic nominee but cannot win support from working-class whites and Hispanics, they argue, then Democrats will not retake the White House in November. If you can’t win in the Southwest, if you don’t win Ohio, if you don’t win Pennsylvania, you’ve got problems in November, said Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), a Clinton supporter.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030703318.html?hpid=topnews
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