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Dems 2008: Hillary Clinton's shot at the popular vote [Karl]

At RCP, Sean Oxendine breaks down most of the states remaining for the Democratic presidential nomination — often with maps down to the county level — to show that Hillary Clinton has a decent shot at winning a 100K to 500K popular vote margin over Barack Obama.  The downscale white vote in the Appalachians (discussed here yesterday) plays a big part in this analysis.  Our old pal Puerto Rico also reappears as a potentially major factor in the popular vote totals.

6 Replies to “Dems 2008: Hillary Clinton's shot at the popular vote [Karl]”

  1. Dan Collins says:

    I think Hillary has one eye, Karl.

  2. This is one of theose “blinded by ambition” references, right?

  3. Karl says:

    Fixed, though I could have pleaded Homerian allusion.

  4. Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) says:

    – “Hey, everyone thats sensible can plainly see tat a 140+ lead in delegates simply doesn’t have the weight of a 100K lead in the “popular vote”. If you don’t agree with me. then you sir, are worse than Hitler”.

    – Would someone please remind me again just what the stated basis for for a Democratic party Presidential nomination is? (Whatever it is, free form mindfucking must play a big part in it.)

  5. […] notes that Obama’s problem in Ohio was with white voters.  He also refers to the analysis by Sean Oxendine noted here earlier, demostrating how poorly Obama has performed in Appalachian counties.  Assuming […]

  6. […] mentioned Puerto Rico once or twice before, I note that about two million Puerto Ricans voted in 2004, even though they did […]

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