Comments on: Neil From Buffalo Makes a Confession

By: EEllis

EEllis — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:52:40 +0000

Give me a break I can't believe even Shaun would try and say he's not partisan. Next you'll tell be Holly is fair and balanced. It reads like a PR piece from Obamas campaign. Where was the larger tend reported?

"cemented the case that she is indeed both untrustworthy and a liar"

I don't like Clinton at all but if you think this is reporting you are (I had to stop for a second) deluded.

By: Pyronite

Pyronite — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:22:27 +0000

It's called reporting. Personal anecdotes are used to symbolize and humanize larger trends.

No partisanship about it, unless it's something you do not wish to hear.

By: EEllis

EEllis — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:14:25 +0000

Wow this is a new level for partisan blogging here.

By: MJDaniels53

MJDaniels53 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:38:09 +0000

I think it's safe to say that the bases of both parties will stick largely to their nominees in the fall. If Clinton is the Democratic nominee, which I just don't see happening, the lion's share of Obama supporters will go to her and vice versa. Substantively, on the issues, there is very little apparent difference between the two of them.

But I do think that in this process leading up to the nomination, Senator Clinton, whose race this was to lose, has seen a huge deterioration in her support. Most of that, I believe, is attributable to judgments on the part of Democratic Party faithful regarding her trustworthiness.

Mark

By: JoyP

JoyP — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:29:54 +0000

I'm one who switched from Clinton to Obama for the same reasons.

By: Mike_P

Mike_P — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:09:45 +0000

I'm sure there are similar stories of the opposite – supporters of Obama who've migrated to Clinton. However, I think Sen. Clinton's campaign, more than anything over the last month or so, reinforced all those “vast right wing conspiracy” talking points about her and her husband. That they will say anything, do anything, be anything to win. Power at any cost, even at the cost of rendering their own political party to shreds.

I think she has already become the Ralph Nader of this election cycle to many Democrats. And as we have seen, that's a reputation that sticks, no matter what good deeds you may have done in the past.

By: elrod

elrod — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:30:06 +0000

Holly, that is the most ridiculous post you've ever made. I know there is a large anti-abortion, pro-Iraq war base in the Democratic base waiting to jump to McCain… Oh, wait a minute. No there isn't.

By: Holly_in_Cincinnati

Holly_in_Cincinnati — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:18:49 +0000

Should Barack Obama be the Democratic nominee, this will be the election where the Democratic Party loses most of its Democrats to John McCain.

By: MJDaniels53

MJDaniels53 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:38:14 +0000

I know a seventy-something woman who voted for Clinton in the Ohio primary. Indeed, she was enthusiastic for her candidate. But two weeks ago, she told us that she's changed her mind. She's backing Obama, not out of any great enthusiasm for the Illinois senator, but because she has become increasingly turned off by Clinton's rhetoric.

Neil and this woman are only anecdotes, of course. But polling indicates that in recent weeks, a rising number of people are saying that they don't trust Senator Clinton and will not vote for her. Whatever happens in Pennsylvania, this trend must be alarming to both her campaign and to the superdelegates to whom she is so desperately trying to prove her electability.

Mark