Hillary Clinton: “White people support me”
By Kathy Kiely and Jill Lawrence - LINKHillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”
“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.
Clinton’s blunt remarks about race came a day after primaries in Indiana and North Carolina dealt symbolic and mathematical blows to her White House ambitions. The Obama campaign, looking toward locking up the nomination, stepped up pressure on superdelegates who have the decisive votes in their race.
In both states, Clinton won six of 10 white voters, according to surveys of people as they left polling places.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said that in Indiana, Obama split working-class voters with Clinton and won a higher percentage of white voters than in Ohio in March. He said Obama will be the strongest nominee because he appeals “to Americans from every background and all walks of life. These statements from Sen. Clinton are not true and frankly disappointing.”
Clinton rejected any idea that her emphasis on white voters could be interpreted as racially divisive. “These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that.”
Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Clinton’s comment was a “poorly worded” variation on the way analysts have been “slicing and dicing the vote in racial terms.”
However, he said her primary support doesn’t prove she’s more electable. Either Democrat will get “the vast majority” of the other’s primary election votes in a general election, he said.
Clinton lost North Carolina by 15 percentage points and won Indiana by 2 points after competing full-out in both states. She had loaned the campaign $6.4 million in the past month. She said she might lend more.
“We should finish the contests we have and see where we stand after they’re over,” she said, referring to the six remaining primaries that will end June 3.
There were signs of unrest Wednesday, even among Clinton allies. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein wondered to The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, “whether she can get the delegates that she needs.” Former South Dakota senator George McGovern, whose 1972 presidential bid gave Clinton her first political experience, switched his support from Clinton to Obama.
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May 9th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Why is her comment “racist”? numbnuts hasn’t specifically stated that he is more popular among Black voters than the shehag, but his campaign and his media cult have mentioned nothing else. 90% of Blacks are voting for the socialist terrorist loving jackass based on nothing but his RACE. So klintoon making this statement means less than nothing in the big picture. Its not about who’s more qualified to lead this country right now its about how “America is ready for a non-white/female President” (sarcasm off) regardless of qualifications. numbnuts is the ultimate token.
May 9th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Her comment was not “racist” exactly but she is using her last best message for victory.
Support me, I’m one of you. SUPPORT WHITEY!
Frankly I’m gleeful that the world is finally starting to see her true colors come out.
This cracka ass bitch would lynch a nigga in broad daylight if she thought it could get her votes.
So of course going into Kentucky and West Virginia she mush appeal to the racist redneck vote.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Dude, WTF? Black people have come out overwhemingly for Obama. Think it’s for his policies?
I love your blog, but the biggest racists I’ve met have been black. And accus ing white people of racism, when they are not, is a sure way to blow your own cred right out of the water.
If a black person votes for the Obamamessia he’s voting for hopey change, but a white person voting for Hillary is a racist redneck?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
No HOD dude I totally get that. Negros are always going to support another Negro.
I know the most racist people are black people.
My point is Hillary in her desperation is NOW saying “my (white) homies need to support me”
She is doing what Dick Morris said she would do months ago.
No HOD dude I totally get that. Negros are always going to support another Negro.
I know the most racist people are black people.
My point is Hillary in her desperation is NOW saying “my (white) homies need to support me”
She is doing what Dick Morris said she would do months ago.
Negros when they are in trouble always play the race card. Think O.J. he was happy in the white world until his ass started carving up people and was in trouble with the law. Then all of a sudden he became an “incorrectly prosecuted brotha”
White politicians when it is politically expedient will always play the “us vs them” card too.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Snoop is just being consistent folks - he’s repeatedly said that people who vote for Obama because he is black (whether they are black or white) are focusing on race too much. Now he’s just holding Hillary to the same standard/rule. Sure, Bill related to some Black people (the red-neck in him relates to the ghetto in some of them). But the point is that appealing or not appealing to someone based upon race is a racists way of dealing with life. Hillary saying “vote for me - I’m white like you” is just as racist as OB saying “vote for me, I’m black like you!” But, sadly, it often works. When push comes to shove, most people will tend to side with people who look like them (never mind if they think/behave like them).
May 9th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
OK, I’m with you. I agree that everyone is playing the race card, just wish it weren’t so. I lived through OJ here in So Cal, and was disgusted.
And Hillary saying she’s white like me holds as much water as Obamba saying he’s black like me.
Neither of these politicians are anything like me, and I resent their clumsy sales job.
Just tired of the political correctness. Wish people would give this thing more thought. But if that were so, we wouldn’t be in this mess.