Archive for June 5, 2008

How they voted

This flash animation is fascinating. It depicts the degree to which voters in different states and across varying demographic lines favored Obama or Clinton for the Democratic nomination.

In other news: Fuck Hillary. Obama clinched the nomination on Tuesday and she still refused to concede? I heard pundits on NPR who very correctly completely dismissed the notion that she would complement Obama’s “Dream Ticket” and basically said that his challenge now is to figure out how to get her out of the picture without completely alienating her supporters because it would show a clear lack of discretion (or weakness of leadership) to ask her to be his running mate. To me, the most mystifying aspect of the race for the Democratic nomination has been the inability of the Clinton supporters to recognize (or perhaps the incapacity to care) how negative and divisive her campaign was, up until the end.

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