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Originally Posted by melliedee
I think that view, while carefully considering the context and history of racism/sexism (which a I can appreciate), is at its heart a bit insulting to the intelligence of voters. If a woman told me she was voting for Hillary just because she is a woman, I'd feel free to call her an idiot. It's not just conservatives hollering about this; I am too.
Why is the breakdown in KY only addressing race with the pundits? Why not the fact that Obama campaigned little there, and basically ceded because he know he could not win? Did that fact impact the margin as much as race might have? How is that any different than Clinton dissing the "unimportant" caucus states?
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They did do some of that, actually, in what I saw.
But on the first point, I still think there's a distinction worthy of note. I hear you saying to such a person, "Why don't you shoot for something a bit better when deciding how to vote?" (with which I would agree), but I hear conservatives using the view I was citing as saying to her, "See, you're just as sexist as the people you liberals complain about!" Or of course in the case of race, that a person is just as racist, etc.
Steve