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Originally Posted by Tempest
But... as shown by tonights results (and others), Obama doesn't get the catholic/christian vote, Hillary does.. Hilary also does better with rural america... Both of which tend to go republican.. So she has a better chance at eroding that support away from McCain..
As for the youth vote, it's been shown time and time again that they may be vocal now, but they don't usually show up when it counts... Even "Obama girl" didn't show up to vote for him when it counted.
Obama also doesn't do well with the Latino vote.
Obama vs McCain will be far uglier than Clinton vs Obama.. It will be a dirty racist type campaign and that will do far more damage than a sexist type camaign.
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No matter which candidate it is it will be ugly. McCain has wanted to be president for a long time. He has tried and failed before and this is his shot. He has already proven that he will now say and do anything to get elected so I'm sure he will get out a shovel and sling that mud.
That said Obama hasn't been around as long as either of them so there is just less shit to dig up on him. They can and will play the race card, but I think that might actually help Obama because it could activate the far left and get them to come to his defense. Hillary vs McCain would be two candidates with loads of shit on each other flinging freely.
I do agree that the young talk a good game then don't vote. look at the last election. Kerry bragged about how he registered a record number of first time voters the he expected them to carry him to the white house, but in the end they stayed home on election day. Bill Clinton was the last candidate to really get the youth motivated and get them out to vote. It remains to be seen if any of these candidates are going to be able to do that.