[lbo-talk] US elections

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed May 7 09:10:41 PDT 2008


So, listers, help out someone who is looking in from outside the US

If I understand it right, Obama's appeal is a kind of Blairite (or even Clintonite) transcendence of the 'old politics'. His core base is black and young, but to show that he is of a different stripe, he has to distance himself from race politics.

Hillary hoped to play up her experience, but that has been boxed in to an appeal to older voters against younger, and to white working class voters, afraid of change.

Is that right?

And is it right that it would be too problematic for the superdelegates to overturn Obama's majority of the committed delegates?

Does that mean an election between Third Way Obama and McCain pushing a kind of old, white resentiment against change?



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