[lbo-talk] so much for the new coalition...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 9 09:23:58 PDT 2008


On May 9, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Julio Huato wrote:


> As always, good summary of issues by Marvin. To this, I'd just add
> that if the Obama coalition is -- as somebody wrote recently -- the
> "same" as that of Kerry, in the sense that the groups that supported
> Kerry appear to have about the same relative weights in Obama's
> coalition (something I'm not so sure of, in both positive and negative
> ways), the fact is that the absolute numbers are staggeringly
> different.

Except that in the national polls right now, Hillary does the same as Obama, or better, against McCain. I guess it all turns on your definition of "staggeringly different."

Doug



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