05.08.08
More Hackery from Jerome Armstrong
Posted in analysis, opinion tagged barack obama, hackery, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, mydd, Pennsylvania, white voters at 2:04 pm by Elliot
Once again, Jerome Armstrong proves that he is a hack:
Reading through the comments, it’s pretty amazing to consider what the Obama supporters are saying about Clinton. Let’s refresh on what she said: “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.”…
And has his percentage among white voters been decreasing, as a trend, with each contest as well?
Now, in case you think that was a genuine question and not a blatent attack against Obama, let’s look at the comments section
Obama has done less and less well with white people.
I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this Jerome, but you still don’t have a grasp on reality, so someone has to clue you in. There is actually pretty good evidence to show that among working class white voters, Obama has actually been improving.
If you don’t believe me, let’s take a look at how Obama performed among White Democrats and White Independents in Alabama and compare them to how he did in Mississippi a month later. In Alabama, Obama only got 21% of White Democrats and only 36% of White Independents, yet in Mississippi, Obama got 23% of White Democrats (a 2% increase) and 40% of White Independents (a 4% increase).
Still don’t believe me? Well, then lets take a look at White Democrats in Ohio vs. Whites in Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania was a closed primary, so I assume that all whites voting are Democrats). In Ohio, Barack Obama got 27% of White Democrats (34% of all white voters); while in Pennsylvania, Obama got 35% of whites who called themselves Democrats (37% of all white voters)
Wait, what’s that? You still don’t believe me? Well, let’s look at how Obama did in Indiana (which, by the way, happened right after Wrightgate II). Obama got 35% of White Democrats (the same as he did in Pennsylvania) and 40% of all white voters (three points better than he did in Pennsylvania). This, by the way, was all in spite of Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos meaning that Obama would’ve probably improved those numbers among white voters even further had that not been happening.
In the future Jerome, maybe you should do some numbers crunching before making such idiotic claims.
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latina for obama said,
May 8, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Elliot
I love your Jerome is a hack comments. You should have a hack archive!
Elliot said,
May 8, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Heh, at the rate we’re going, I’ll be able to make my own separate site which just says “Jerome is a Hack”, I know I’d be able to fill that up
latina for obama said,
May 8, 2008 at 9:56 pm
exactly Elliot.