A good link in NYT about what Obama really said about Reagan and what the Clintons have twisted it to mean.
Its amazing that he gets criticised for actually trying to appeal beyond the Democratic base, while being spot on with progressive policies. Clinton has spent years taking crappy votes to position herself as a centrist and yet she has no indie or Republican support and doesn’t even try to get it despite her centrism.
She has to hope that Romney pulls a miracle and wins or that the Republican base just stays home in November. McCain will kill her with independents and a lot of Reagan Democrats. Obama (or Edwards if he had a prayer left for the nomination) gives us a far better chance of winning.
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I knocked on a lot of doors during the campaign, and my informal sample says that many people voting in the NH Democratic primary were choosing not between Obama and Clinton, but between Obama and McCain.
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p>The fact is that Bill Clinton never got 50% of the popular vote. Neither will Hillary; her only hope would be not a Romney nomination, but an independent who would divide the Republicans the way Perot did. The only likely independent this time, however, is Bloomberg, and he’s more likely to draw independents and Democrats, leaving a very cohesive anti-Hillary bloc of Republicans to take the election.
Hillary plays to the base even though her policies play to the center. A really bad mix.