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BY TAYLOR MARSH

Exhibit A for why Democrats lose presidential elections:

Seriously, you are acting like the entire election rests on the shoulders of what some hillbillies in West Virginia think. What is wrong with you? Your code for “rural” voters should be insulting to everyone that lives in West Virginia because it is code for “rednecked, KKK member.” You need to get a real job and stop beating on the best presidential candidate since JFK. Get a life. – Robert

Code? In what language? In that lunch bucket, blue collar also means only white? Or in that “hillbillies in West Virginia” reveals your own bigotry? Note to Robert, John F. Kennedy won West Virginia. What did he get about the “redneckked, KKK member” voters that Obama doesn’t get?

It’s what Democrats have been missing for decades, right up until Hillary Clinton
tapped into it. The first candidate to be able to convince lunch bucket Democrats,
which come in all colors and shades (Hispanics, Asians, African Americans, Irish-Scots), that voting your economic interest will
actually begin to solve your problems on the way to ending them. But to the
elitist numbskulls in the Obama wing of the Democratic party, which includes
the knee jerk analysis on most cable networks, if you vote for Clinton you’re
a racist. Convenient, but clueless.

These are the same people who would look at my husband’s stained hands and
think he is a hick, missing the home style manicure beneath. The chances of him sitting in a chair to get a manicure are between slim and fughettaboutit.

But Obama’s fans are now touting a new kind of electoral map for November. They have to
or Obama is a tough sell.
It’s never been proven, but it’s the progressive elite’s
dream, helped along by conservatives like the Obama besotted Andrew Sullivan,
a man who couldn’t wait to further
promote the Hillary Clinton Supporters are Racist storyline yesterday. It’s
a Democratic year, so why not try to re-invent the electoral wheel too. Leave
it to Democrats to find a hard way to win in a moment where the path is open.
Again, there are some people who will never vote for a woman or an African American,
but these people do not make up the majority of HRC’s supporters, though to
make Obama’s argument even his team are winking and nodding at this strategy.

Hey, but at least we’re going back to the tried and true. No, not Hillary Clinton’s
coalition that has a proven track record all the way back to F.D.R., though
Democrats lost their way many times in between. But what never worked in the
1980s or in 2004 either. Possibly nominating a candidate that has no chance
whatsoever in getting the people who need the Democratic party the most back into the fold. Only Clinton can perform that miracle. Attracting once again your heartland and blue collar American who quit voting his or her Democratic economic interests
because they stopped relating to our Democratic candidates. It’s once again alive and well
and on parade in the Obama wing of the Democratic party, with the cultural divide split open again for the Republicans to mine.