I've always felt that if the Democrats throw their support behind Hilary and Obama, they're going to lose. It's pretty simple. The kind of voter that will vote for either a black man or a woman will be split come primaries (and I doubt they'll adopt the primary winner as their new vote), and the majority of conservative voters that like their Presidents white and with a penis will vote for the GOP candidate.
Hilary and Obama is just a poor choice for Democrats, and it's a shame they're going to blow a great opportunity to win the White House.
Hilary is a very polarizing figure. Democrats think she's an easy win, but that's just laughable.
Willco hits the nail on the head. Liberals seem to look at Obama as their pet project - they want to know if they can get a black man elected and make themselves feel good. It's not going to work. The same with Hillary, who would lose a national election in a landslide if you ask me. The only democratic candidate who could win in 2008 isn't running (Gore).
The sad thing is that this is perhaps the Democrat's best chance to win. The Republicans are in an ideological free fall, and the public is rapidly turning their back on the "my country, right or wrong patriotism" nonsense the right has been pumping for the last few years. But having a black man and a white woman as your top candidates is not going to work. I find it funny that many liberals consider the US to be a very racist, divided society when compared to Europe and the other places liberals like so much...but at the same time they feel Obama can be elected. It's not going to happen.
1. Racial divide. I don't know if it's just racism though. There are many white people out there who aren't racist at all, but I don't think they are mentally ready to let a black man assume the highest office in the land - and the world. This group of people is far larger than the closeted racists out there who won't vote for Obama just because he's black. Have you seen videos of the Little Rock 9 walking into school, and getting heckled? Do you think those white people disappeared? No, they're still there and we'll be paying for their social security for years to come, keeping the bastards alive even longer.
2. Black people don't vote. It insenses me that there are the vast majority of blacks in this country don't vote. People died for that right, yet today there's little interest in politics coming from black America. And to be frank, I don't think Obama is going to connect with those people. Obama is not going to ramble on with fallacies while complaining about how the white man has treated him, because Obama has never really been a victim of the same racism blacks in inner cities face. He doesn't connect with those people. And just as Diddy's Vote or Die campaign fizzled, expect any sort of black movement to fail with respect to Obama.
