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In Terms of Geography, Obama Appeals to Academics and Clinton Appeals to Jacksonians
usnews.com ^ | April 02, 2008 | Michael Barone

Posted on 04/03/2008 2:37:13 PM PDT by neverdem

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“Obama’s electorate is the distilled essence of liberalism — academics, government workers, blacks and guilty affluent whites. I don’t know whether Clinton can catch Obama or not. But, if he’s the nominee, the Reagan Democrats will almost certainly be McCain Democrats...and the landslide follows.”

Maybe so. Obama has been running a campaign both vaporous and dishonest. I expect a clinton-mccain race to be a close race. Obama v McCain otoh has a larger chance to be wide-open, either way. The good news is that things are lining up to favor McCain, so long as he does the right thing to win, and the people get wise to the real Obama.

Obama must not become the President. He will be a disaster.


21 posted on 04/05/2008 10:51:34 AM PDT by WOSG (Solve all the world's problems .... Just build more nukes already.)
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things are lining up to favor McCain, so long as he does the right thing to win,

Yet, he could so easily make a fool of himself -- either losing his temper or revealing a penchant for senior moments.

Against Obama, McCain should win big...but his situation is exceedingly delicate.

22 posted on 04/05/2008 3:17:08 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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In Terms of Geography, Obama Appeals to Academics and Clinton Appeals to Jacksonians

I know where Academia is, but where is Jacksonia?

23 posted on 04/05/2008 3:44:01 PM PDT by matt1234
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I know where Academia is, but where is Jacksonia?

Think of the area settled by the Scots-Irish, in and around the Appalachian Mountains.

24 posted on 04/05/2008 4:11:30 PM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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Inadequate map. Off to the East of Charlotte, NC - in the unhighlighted area - you could see the Waxhaws area of the Carolinas, where Andrew Jackson was born and grew up. (There’s some dispute between the states about his precise birthplace.)


25 posted on 04/05/2008 4:15:48 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Everything is either willed or permitted by God, and nothing can hurt me." Bl. Charles de Foucauld)
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