Edwards’ Electability

Posted at 11:28 am on Monday, October 22, 2007, in Uncategorized, and tagged 2008, tapper.

I don’t think John Edwards is racist, or that he is running a racist campaign. However, there is some truth to Edwards’ selling point that he is more electable in the red states, because, let’s face it, he is a white male, as compared to a female Hillary Clinton and a black Barack Obama. Edwards doesn’t explicitly mention the “obvious” difference of the three, although he does so implicitly. Jake Tapper blogged this story earlier this morning, and I commented…

Edwards is right, unfortunately. History tell us (recent history, too) that it will be difficult to gain wide support (large enough to win the state’s electoral votes) in the south, running on a liberal, left-of-center agenda. It would make it even more difficult, as history reports it, that a female or a black male be the one selling those ideas. Not in the south. Not in 2008. (And it sucks.)

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