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.
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 14 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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“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.”
Oh, yeah, I forgot, only white people are hard-working Americans.
Only white people have put so much into this country, only to be slapped in the face, spit in the face, kicked in the face and looked upon as less than human.
Only white people have worked under free, unpaid labor to build this country up. Only white people have gone off to wars to save the world from fascism and nazism, only to come home and be lynched while still in uniform.
Only white people have worked and survived on near-slave wages during Jane Crow segregation, to send their children to college. Only white people have been denied the right to vote, only white people have been paid less wages than black people for the same position.
Only white people have scrimped, and saved and went without to buy themselves a home—-the Ultimate American Dream.
Yeah.
Hard-working black Americans. According to YOU, Ms. Hillary, such people do not exist.
So, what about it, Hillary Clinton?
What about all those invisible hard-working black people who supported your campaign?
Oops! I forgot!
According to YOU, hard-working black Americans do not exist, so, therefore, no hard-working black Americans were around to vote for you in the previous primaries.
Oh, and I just luuuuuuuuuv this statement, Ms. Hillary:
““These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election,” she said. “Everybody knows that.”
Translation:
“Fuck you black Americans who have stayed with me throughout this campaign. Your vote obviously means nothing to me. You are so much cannon fodder to be taken for granted” (Nothing new there; the Democratic Party has always taken black citizens for granted.)
“The only vote that matters to me, is the precious hard-working white Americans.” Everyone knows they are the ONLY true hard-working Americans that have ever existed in the entire history of this country.”
So, Hillary, I guess you really did not mean for your comments to be hurtful, hateful, cruel, divisive, monstrous, degrading, reviling, repulsive, and perverted.
NO.
You just meant well, did you, Hillary?
Yeah, sure you did.
You just showed your true colors the way you have been doing for quite a while, now.
Just come out and say what you really feel.
You hate that black citizens have minds of their own. You hate that black people are not the puppets you thought you had in your Puppet Master back-pocket.
You don’t give a damn about black people as human beings with the right to vote for whom they wish, and your filthy, nasty “whites as hard-working Americans” is the ultimate sadistic slap in the face and kick in the stomach to the millions of hard-working, working-class black Americans.
Yeah, Hillary, those Americans.
They do exist, as much as you hate to acknowledge that fact.
Shit.
Black people do not need any further sordid insults from you.
You have gone out of your way to be supremely savage to black Americans, and these recent comments have sealed the lid on your coffin of your callous disregard towards black voters.
The black vote.
You obviously only took it for granted, and now that black voters (the sheer, unmitigated gall of those uppity black folks!), refuse to vote for you, out come the vicious harpy talons to rip into black people.
No surprise there, Ms. Hillary.
Black people have never been humans in your eyes; just pawns to further advance your greedy grasp to obtain the highest office in the land.
You don’t give a damn about black people, as you have shown so very well in the last six months.
But, my bad.
You were just talking about working Americans, which any knowledgeable person knows, are obviously white.
I have to remember.
Only white people are capable of being such hard-workers. Only white people have the right to have their humanity and worth validated. Only white people have votes that really count.
Thanks so much for reminding me of that, Ms. Hillary.
Oh, and by the way. . . .
. . . .fuck you, Hillary.