Comments on: Appalachia http://www.thetalentshow.org/2008/05/14/appalachia/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:58:51 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Edwards = White people! | Waveflux http://www.thetalentshow.org/2008/05/14/appalachia/comment-page-1/#comment-15872 Edwards = White people! | Waveflux Thu, 15 May 2008 16:07:42 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2008/05/14/appalachia/#comment-15872 [...] Setting aside the real possibility that Edwards hadn’t actually decided which candidate to endorse, it seems that the timing of the endorsement couldn’t be better for Obama, coming as it does right after a shellacking in West Virginia that Hillary Clinton will present as evidence that Obama can’t close the deal with those prized hard-working white voters. What better moment to maximize the value of a stamp of approval from the only white populist around? Obama knows that, and you’d have to imagine that Edwards does too. The delegate situation is settled, whether Clinton acknowledges it or not; Obama is playing a longer game now, and the Edwards endorsement is part of that strategy. Think of it as an Appalachian inoculation. [...] [...] Setting aside the real possibility that Edwards hadn’t actually decided which candidate to endorse, it seems that the timing of the endorsement couldn’t be better for Obama, coming as it does right after a shellacking in West Virginia that Hillary Clinton will present as evidence that Obama can’t close the deal with those prized hard-working white voters. What better moment to maximize the value of a stamp of approval from the only white populist around? Obama knows that, and you’d have to imagine that Edwards does too. The delegate situation is settled, whether Clinton acknowledges it or not; Obama is playing a longer game now, and the Edwards endorsement is part of that strategy. Think of it as an Appalachian inoculation. [...]

]]> By: Parsons http://www.thetalentshow.org/2008/05/14/appalachia/comment-page-1/#comment-15870 Parsons Thu, 15 May 2008 11:07:53 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2008/05/14/appalachia/#comment-15870 Very interesting! US election commentators should take more interest in coastal-inland/hill territory divides. In Oregan, for instance. Very interesting! US election commentators should take more interest in coastal-inland/hill territory divides. In Oregan, for instance.

]]> By: Peter777 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2008/05/14/appalachia/comment-page-1/#comment-15868 Peter777 Thu, 15 May 2008 00:48:09 +0000 http://www.thetalentshow.org/2008/05/14/appalachia/#comment-15868 That analysis is exactly right. You can look at the vote west of the Blue Ridge in Virginia and see that. Obama only carried cities and counties west of the Blue Ridge with upscale whites--- Roanoke, Montgomery County (Virginia Tech, Radford Univ), Rockbridge (VMI and W and L) and so on up the Valley. Obama needs to defeat McCain with independents and disaffected Republicans and there are a lot of them. That analysis is exactly right. You can look at the vote west of the Blue Ridge in Virginia and see that. Obama only carried cities and counties west of the Blue Ridge with upscale whites— Roanoke, Montgomery County (Virginia Tech, Radford Univ), Rockbridge (VMI and W and L) and so on up the Valley.

Obama needs to defeat McCain with independents and disaffected Republicans and there are a lot of them.

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