[lbo-talk] Gallup: Dem race now tied

[Eubulides]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:00 PM, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
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> At 09:15 PM 4/25/2008, Eubulides wrote:
>  >On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:48 PM, shag <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > >  clinton is red meat for the base. they need to fire up their base in order
>  > >  to win. red meat gets the vote out.
>  >
>  >=============
>  >
>  >She can no more do populism-ressentiment than she can down a shot of
>  >whiskey; too smug to know angst, too..........
>
>  did you snip the wrong sentence to reply to? if not, then maybe i wasn't
>  clear: red meat for the base is someone they hate. it's like giving a pack
>  of dogs a hunk of red meat. that's how the republican base feels about
>  hillary clinton -- and bill clinton, too. they want to chew her up like a
>  hunk of bloody red meat.
>
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My bad; I misread because gmail didn't show you replying to GM and I
misthought you left out a word or two. If the Repugs. go ressentiment
they'll make BHO's point and she won't be able to respond in kind even
if she's able, which she isn't. No way she can triangulate Thomas
Frank and Larry Bartels: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8664.html