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Originally Posted by Jacko
Ed Kilgore on the Unity Ticket
I know this is a deeply unpopular, even infuriating, suggestion to many Obama supporters who've watched the Clinton campaign savage their champion for many months. Indeed, some of them think the vanquishing of the Clintons from power in the Democratic Party is the whole point of the Obama "movement." Why, many ask, should Obama take on Hillary's "baggage" after finally defeating her at the cost of so much blood, sweat, tears, money, and approval-ratings points?
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Symbolism aside, Hillary Clinton would bring some tangible political assets to the Democratic ticket. Even if you dismiss her relative strength in the primaries among white working-class voters, older voters, Appalachians, or Catholics as ephemeral or irrelevant to a general election campaign, there is simply no denying her personal and positive appeal to professional women and Latinos, with whom she has generated as much excitement as Obama has among younger voters and African-Americans. She would also bring some national security street cred to the ticket, which is an Obama vulnerability that I suspect is being underappreciated at the moment.
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I think a good case can be made supporting that point of view. A real good case.
It is not the only case to be made, though I think it is the one that comes the closest to bringing a Democratic party victory.
The one I feel most attracted to is a Obama-Richarson ticket-of-color.
Get 70-75% of the combined African=American and Latino vote (25% of the electorate) and F*ck all the White Peoples
That is the one that feels most satisfying to me
