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| Mark Steyn: Superdelegate supercalculations |
| 2008-04-24 |
| I've been mulling over that weirdly hysterical anti-Hillary editorial in yesterday's New York Times in which the voice of America's liberal establishment turned on the candidate it had endorsed only a couple of months previously for going negative, "waving the bloody shirt of 9/11", etc. If I were a timeserving party hack - which is to say a "superdelegate" - wondering about my support for Hillary, Pennsylvania ought to confirm the shrewdness of my judgment: Obama's a hopelessly weak candidate with minimal appeal beyond blacks and upscale white liberals who enjoy the kinky frisson of racial guilt. But, if I were a timeserving party hack who reads the Times, I'd be struck by the ferocity of its assault on a woman it's admired for 15 years and I'd be thinking, whoa, I don't want that kind of publicity if that's the price of sticking with Hill... There are no good choices for superdelegates right now. But, if you survey the landscape via the pages of the Times, the Hillary option looks like it comes with more potential for blowback. The media's over-glamorization of and over-investment in a weak novelty candidate will influence more calculations than the grim demographic arithmetic of Pennsylvania. |
| Posted by:Mike |