But Bonk wanted nothing of that question. "I don't know how you could make this kind of mistake," he continued. "Why did you break away? Lackawanna County is Clinton country. You slapped all of us in the face. You should have supported the hometown girl."I'll say it: Judas! Seriously though, this tribalism needs to stop. It is ruining both parties when people are being goaded into choosing their representatives on identity politics (race, gender, religion) in the face of reason and judgment.
Moreover, as loathe as I am to call RACISM!11!!!, there is a racial bias in how the media is describing what the candidates need to do. Obama absolutely needs to make inroads in the white working class demographic or he will lose. Yet it is assumed that Clinton will carry the black vote fait accompli. In fact it is very easy for the argument against Obama to be made against Clinton, yet I have NEVER heard anyone on the cable nets make it; everyone just assumes the black vote will loyally fall in lien without being wooed, unlike the poor whites. It is why people are already emphasizing Indiana over North Carolina, since Indiana has a higher population of "real Americans" (sidenote: I am also tired of media elites putting poor uneducated whites on a pedestal as "real Americans" and giving them the keys to the nominating process, when the same thing would NEVER happen with any other ethnic group. Little known fact: EVERY VOTE COUNTS THE SAME AMOUNT).
Okay rant over. God I am ready for the primaries to be finished.
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