Remember when Obama couldn't get Hillary's black voters?

[Report1212]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In recent months, ABC News-Washington Post polls showed Sen. Hillary Clinton running 40 points higher than Sen. Barack Obama among blacks voters asked to name their preference in the Democratic primary.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/02/28/obama.black.vote/index.html?iref=newssearch

[enough]

1. Interesting perspective. (nt)

[Juicy_Bellows]

2. History has a way with repetition. Nt.

[John Poet]

3. Actually, I recall Hillary emphasizing her advantage

with WHITE voters:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/clinton-touts-white-support/?_r=0


“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press.

It “found how Senator 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.

While she said her remarks weren’t meant to be divisive, they’re already whipping around the Internet. “These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that,” she said in the interview. (Hint, hint, message to the superdelegates still undeclared.)

[Recursion]

4. Her campaign shot itself in the foot there 8 years ago

I doubt she'll make that mistake again