Tim Russert on MSNBC:
- Really striking how much the gender gap has shrunk, Hillary won white women by 53-45.
- Obama won white men 62-36.
- It appears... that white men, who had been voting for John Edwards, have gravitated rather dramatically for Barack Obama.
- This really is now a game of mathematics (i.e., delegates).
- After tonight, Hillary has to win 58% of the remaining elected delegates.
- If you assume that Obama is going to win some states like VT, WY and SD, and even the Clinton campaign would acknowledge that, you suddenly get to the point where Clinton has to win 65% of the elected delegates of TX, OH and PA. That is such an uphill battle.
The Trouble With Common Sense
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Damon Linker has an interesting post about the problematic history of
invocations of “common sense” in American political rhetoric, tracing it
from Thomas ...
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