Hillary Clinton clinched it, thanks to the bitter people!
Trouble is, that's true. There's a whole cadre of Dems who have been disillusioned since they crossed over and voted for Reagan. Many of them live in a world which has turned rusty while people living in the countries their ancestors fled from are now the places where economies are picking up and where the dollar is old paper. Run your pointer across Pennsylvania's counties and you'll find that Clinton's diminishing lead in that state is among those who call themselves "conservative" in areas where the word has come to mean fear, anger and resentment.
Many are also unable to vote for a "black" man -- a discernible percentage apparently admitted that bias. Ben Smith writes in Politico: "The Associated Press reported that 16 percent of white voters said race was a factor in their votes." Perhaps "blackness" isn't the whole story: Obama is half Kansan, half foreign. Foreign is where our dollars, our steel, and our reputations are no longer good.
Whatever. Maureen Dowd writes:
Before they devour themselves once more, perhaps the Democrats will take a cue from Dr. Seuss’s “Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!” ... They could sing:
“The time has come. The time has come. The time is now. Just go. ... I don’t care how. You can go by foot. You can go by cow. Hillary R. Clinton, will you please go now! You can go on skates. You can go on skis. ... You can go in an old blue shoe.
Just go, go, GO!”
Watching Hillary Clinton pick up her diminished win in Pennsylvania is like being threatened with another decade of old politics, a decade filled with doubts, bad decisions, and the rancid smell of the old politics. Would Clinton do any more for those conservative Democrats stuck in dying economies than the earlier Clinton did or than Bush did?
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