Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The converse of Hillary Clinton's argument...

Here's something for the superdelegates to consider:
Because among Obama voters, Clinton has a net-negative personal rating (35-43) while Clinton voters have a net-positive view of Obama (50-29). Taken together, this appears to be evidence that Obama, intially, should have the easier time uniting the party than Clinton.
This is difficult to fathom. By all accounts, Clinton's strategy is only going to get more nasty and more divisive. Already more of the Obama camp dislikes her than not, and further attacks are only going to hurt her numbers here more. I'm sure that this strategy will work, though. [Insert some swipe at Mark Penn here, I'm too exhausted to come up with one.]
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.