Jennifer Rubin is wrong.
She is comparing Obama’s performance in 2008 Democratic primaries to Kerry and Gore’s general election results against a Republican.
This is apples and oranges.
The white Democrats who didn’t vote for Obama in the primaries are still Democrats. To suggest that he has a “white problem” by cherry-picking states that Clinton won is just silly.
Iowa, South Carolina, Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah, Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington, Maine, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Hawaii, Wisconsin, Vermont, U.S. Virgin Islands, Democrats Abroad, Wyoming and Mississippi.
Those are the states won by Obama so far. Would any serious person suggest that these states are represented primarily by blacks, “ultra-liberals” and college students?
This article reminds me of electoral college analysis from May 2004 that showed solid evidence of a John Kerry blowout. Democrats wanted to believe this so badly that they ignored all evidence to the contrary. We all know how that worked out.
People see what they want to see.
