Analyzing Obama’s Coalition
By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, PollsJay Cost at RealClearPolitics is doing a multi-part analysis of Barack Obama’s voting coalition. The first article is up today.
This is very in-depth, statistical analysis comparing voting regions, races, education and other variables. If you’re a political numbers junkie, check it out. It’s quite interesting.
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May 27th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
OBAMA, AUSCHWITZ, AND PINOCCHIO
Well, if we want a president with a great imagination, Osama/Obama is our man!
We really can’t call them gaffes anymore since there have been so many umm, untruths, exaggerations, prevarications. Let’s just call a spade a spade: Osama/Obama is a baldfaced LIAR!
This time he told a whopper in New Mexico on Memorial Day. The only other explanations are that he suffers from premature dementia or he is just plain dumb. Making a pitch for both the Vet vote and the Jewish vote, (both of which groups already know what he is), he claimed his uncle helped free the victims of Auschwitz. He’s been exposed–again!
For that and other truth-challenged claims see: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/27/obama-my-grandfather-liberated-auschwitz/
Next thing you know, Osama/Obama will say he saved Hillary from those dastardly snipers in Bosnia.
May 27th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said. “Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically.†Confusing one concentration camp for another is hardly the same thing as dodging bullets that didn’t exist.
However, it seems to me that that much is made about things that seem to matter so little in the grand scheme of things, I don’t think people change their minds about candidates based on Hillary’s Bosnia gaffe or tears or Obama’s lapel pin or Hillarys missing pin.
This particular gaffe is no different than anything you could point at to in McCains camp or the Clinton or Obama’s camps. If such things could change a large group of voters minds then I would be very worried about the future of American politics.