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President Obama: inflation, depression, taxes, bombings, surrender! All good front page material.

"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle

Obama has clobbered Hillary in NC on the strength of the black vote (made up 35% of all voters, and 91% of them went for Obama). And on the strength of new young voters (made up 18% of all voters, and 68% of them went for Obama).

Obama's truly massive turnout of his usual coalition--youngsters and blacks--won him the state.

Still, the exit polls clearly show that once again, Obama can't break out of that coalition to appeal to anybody else in large numbers. I'll have more to say about that in another post.

The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

Oh boy even the Clintons are going to have trouble spinning this.

“.....women and minorities hardest hit”

I don't think those numbers mean much. The GOP race, for all intents and purposes, is sown up. McCain was my #1 choice, but my aunt and uncle, who live in NC, did not vote for McCain today. They wanted to vote for the candidate with whom their beliefs most closely follow. However, in November, they will happily cast their ballots for McCain.

We all know that McCain is a lock, right? We're not in an Obama/Hillary situation where the eventual nominee is up in the air (barring a lightning bolt or whatever).

The nominee is going to be John McCain.

Also, keep in mind that (SWEEPING GENERALIZATION ALERT) Republicans, being Republicans, are pragmatists first and foremost. They know that McCain is going to be the nominee.

As such the number of Republicans likely to be swayed by the thought "It Is My Civic Duty To Show Up And Stand In Line For Ten Minutes Instead Of Going Home And Doing Jello Shots With The Wife" is significantly less.

The folks who do show up are far more likely to be thinking things like "It Is Vitally Important To Me That I Send A Message To The Republican Leadership!!!!!" (hence: Huckabee, Paul, and Romney (Romney? Seriously? Yeah... says Romney right there...))

Also (SWEEPING GENERALIZATION ALERT), Republicans don't fall in love, they fall in line. If this was a "real" election, McCain would get all of those votes except for the Paul ones and the Paul ones would vote Libertarian or Constitution or Wobbly or whatever... and, more to the point, there would be a *HUGE* increase in turnout because everyone would know "This Is Not A Drill" and they'd quit screwing around and vote for the guy with an R next to his name and then get on home to do some serious jello shotting with the wife.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire

... most Republicans crossing the line to do damage vote for Obama (contrary to Rush's wishes).

At least I seem to recall this being the case in previous primaries, as Obama is seen as the weaker candidate for the general.