[lbo-talk] Obama outlines his troop pullout plan

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 12 15:04:54 PDT 2007


On Sep 12, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:


> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_on_el_pr/obama_iraq
>>
>> Hillary's gonna triangulate this, as she has all along - which is why
>> she's a steady 16 points ahead of Obama. Split the difference: that's
>> the American way!
>
> In the presidential elections certainly. But in the Dem primaries, I
> wonder. According to most polls, if she split the difference on this,
> that would place her way to the right of the majority of Dem primary
> voters; those polls seem to show all the Dem candidates to
> the right of the primary voters.

She's 16 points ahead among Dems. Electability, comrade!



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