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Arkansas and Obama, a disconnect
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Aug 03, 2008 11:15am |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Aug 03, 2008 11:00am |
| Description | By John Brummett
It's in the fine Arkansas Democratic political tradition of having things both ways.
State Democrats say they'll be happy to get behind Barack Obama with all their might, but only if he makes a full commitment to the state that would render their efforts something other than futile and in vain.
File that under "B," for "blah, blah, blah," or whatever else you can think of that might start with that particular letter.
Arkansas is very nearly the last state Obama would waste time in. These Democrats of such hollow verbiage and strong self-preservation instincts know that.
He might venture here before he went to Wyoming or Utah or Oklahoma. And that might be about it.
Our state only has six electoral votes. While economically populist, it's culturally conservative, which Obama, by reputation, at least, isn't. It's dominated by - indeed, decided by - white rural voters, who, speaking generally, find Obama's persona and name and background and associations to be alien things they can't identify with and perhaps fear. |
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