The Washington Post’s Dan Balz discovers voters who look like him:
In the fierce campaign between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, a battle dominated by questions of race and gender, white men have emerged as perhaps the single critical swing constituency.
The competition for the support of white men, particularly those defined as working class, will shape the showdown between Clinton and Obama in Pennsylvania’s Democratic presidential primary on April 22. Obama (Ill.) won majorities among those voters in what appeared to be breakthrough victories in Wisconsin and Virginia last month. But he badly lost working-class white men to Clinton (N.Y.) in Ohio and Texas two weeks ago, keeping the outcome of the Democratic race in doubt indefinitely.
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An examination of exit polls in Wisconsin and Ohio, states with striking similarities, shows that many more working-class white men in Ohio said race was a factor in their vote on March 4 than was the case in Wisconsin. The analysis makes clear that race was not the deciding factor in the Ohio primary but did contribute to Clinton’s margin of victory.
Regular Protein Wisdom visitors already know that: white males have been a crucial swing vote in presidential politics for 40 years or so; contrary to myth, Obama has done well with white men since the beginning of primary season; and Obama has tended to do better in states with either few blacks or lots of blacks, and worst in states with moderate black populations.  In that last regard, Pennsylvania looks much more like Ohio than Wisconsin, which seems to be one of the implicit reasons why bloggers like Al Giordano think Clinton will net a minimum of 20 delegates in Pennsylvania, even if Obama does everything right.
At least the WaPo is trying to catch up, which is more than can be said about most establishment media outlets.
The only good white male is a . . .
Oh, never mind.
many more working-class white men in Ohio said race was a factor in their vote
They always highlight this aspect, that there is some undercurrent of racism. They rarely highlight that there are large blocks of black voters that say race was a factor in their vote, or large blocks of female voter that say gender was a factor in their vote.
When in doubt, toss out the white male bigot card.
And toss it out they will. If Hillary manages to get the nomination, when McCain wins the general election.
Being a progressive means you need something to be angry about. What better target than the working class white vote?
I seem to remember that Team Clinton missed the PA filing deadline for their slate of delegates even though they received an extension of one week from Gov. Rendell. I believe Team Clinton’s delegate slate, once submitted, was still 10 delegates short of a full slate.
Wisconsin and Ohio, states with striking similarities
In the sense that neither of them is in New York, California, or Washington DC, I suppose.
I’m just an angry white man
Angry white man, angry white man
Angry white man, angry white man
Angry white man!
Yeah, Dan, but they got it comin’ to ’em, the Jap-nukin’, AIDS-inventin’, drug-importin’, prison-buildin’ blue-eyed devils. Just hold off until after the primary so they can vote for me.
What about Dirty White Boy?
We already have a theme song.
Wisconsin and Ohio, states with striking similarities
They are both in the Big 10.
They both have someone named John Smith that lives in the state.
Baracky and Hill/Bill each acted like clowns in their states.
They are both not on either coast.
They both experience all 4 seasons.
They both have never been trod upon by the pompous douchenozzles in the MSM, being in flyover country.
They both drink a lot, and have slightly above average football.
There’s the whole major university has red as a school color thing, too.
Good one, MayBee.
I was going to say that both schools beat my Illini in football, but we kicked the OSU’s ass. Basketball, it would be quite true.
Look for Indiana to have striking similarities as well.
Pretty soon I’m going to have to stop caring about politics and go full-bore for March Madness.
Attack Rabbit,
Clinton’s lack of a full slate will not affect her share of the delegates.
Here are my “White Man” thoughts:
Bill Clinton denies any knowledge of a federally backed $300,000 loan made to Susan McDougal during the Whitewater scandal, although virtually everyone associated with the case is convicted in one form or another with the exception of the Clintons. Bill then makes one of the most quoted statements in modern history by cheating husbands, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman†although the blue dress surfaced afterwards with his love juice on it. Hillary denies any relationship with Peter Paul or David Rosen as part of her senate finance campaign, although the “Hillary Uncensored†movie surfaced proving not only her knowledge of the fund raising efforts, but her active involvement. Never mind the number of campaign finance rules and federal laws that were broken on this subject alone, her word is supposed to be good enough for us. (Google “Hillary Uncensored†for more information on this) Now with all of this said, I am just suppose to believe that the Clinton’s didn’t play the race card??! How dumb does the Clinton campaign think the general public really is? Every campaign puts on staff certain sacrificial lambs so to speak, and when the chips are down they leak some damaging item against the opponent that undermines their momentum in a major primary or caucus. Then if the item backfires, the individual who leaked the information either resigns or gets cut loose. It’s known as a strategy of deniability. So yes I would say the race card was not only played, but it was planned on by them.
Indiana is waaaaaay different, MayBee. The Loosiers puked all over themselves down the stretch, and any Dem candidate statewide starts about 15 points in the hole, on a good day.
Baracky did bring the Hopey Changey Tour ’08 thru here on Saturday, and Hill/Bill is dropping by this week. Suffice it to say that I will not be attending.
JD:
Isn’t it weird that our state wil actually matter to someone’s campaign?
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