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"Clinton Supporters Say SD Votes Mattered"...and they appear to be the only ones who think so.
After the Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky primaries, the press had all sorts of stories about Obama's inability to seal the deal and his weakness among working-class white voters. So you'd think Clinton's South Dakota win would produce a similar round of doubts in the press.
Not so. The Clinton supporters cited in the above headline from KELO appear to be the only folks making much of anything out of Hillary's South Dakota win last night. On the Yahoo News main page, I find only one headline reference to South Dakota, and that's a CQ Politics story about how Iowa, Montana, and South Dakota have set their Congressional races for November (and yes, they list us last; they also rate both Johnson's and Herseth Sandlin's races "Safe Democrat."). South Dakota shows up nowhere in the Google News headlines. Real Clear Politics gives the poll numbers, but the only South Dakota headline is in the AP feed, and that's about the approval of the rezoning for the Hyperion refinery in Elk Point (the vote of the most lasting consequence in our state). On the main pages of the New York Times, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune -- nothing.
Call me selfish, but I'm a little miffed. Even if it's not the news I want, couldn't the national press give South Dakota just a little more attention? Pretty please?
Oh well -- that's what the Madville Times is here for. :-)
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Yup. The media hyped the South Dakota and Montana primaries as long as they needed them, but the steamroller story of the superdelegates on Tuesday squished the story of our vote like a bug.
ReplyDeleteOh, well, the media circus is over and we can go back to being the Midwest's best kept secret.
ReplyDeleteAs for the media? They can go back to forgetting that we're an actual state and call us "America's Outback".
The only way I see us making headlines in the not-too-distant future is if Tom Daschle or John Thune are named VP candidates.
South Dakota received the coverage it deserved. We voted against our interest, again. Obama is from a prairie agricultural state. Clinton's a New York multi-millionaire pretending to be a populist (not unlike Bush from Connecticutt pretending to be a Texan). Obama supported biofuels and ethanol, the Farm Bill, the GI Bill, actually passed health care reforms in state and federal legislatures, and has more experience in elected office than Clinton.
ReplyDeleteOh well... I'm either voting for McCain, or Bob Barr for President, so it really didn't matter to me who got the Democratic nod.
ReplyDeleteSouth Dakota thumbed its nose at itself. It has a culture-deficit syndrome. Taken clockwise, ND, MN, IA, NE, WY, and MT voters all figured out that voting for Obama was voting for their interests. So, what's the matter with South Dakota?
ReplyDeleteDoes it matter? South Dakota hasn't voted for a Democratic candidate since LBJ in 1964!
ReplyDeleteRE: "Obama has more experience in elected office than Clinton."
ReplyDeleteOh Really?!?!? Can I have some of what you're smoking? I challenge you to publicly back up this statement. But you won't because you CANNOT.
Go back to school child and do your research!
Not only did the media snub South Dakota, but Senator Obama COMPLETELY snubbed Madison. He was many times within 20 miles of this community, yet refused to stop. It's no wonder Senator Clinton won Madison.
ReplyDeleteAnon 7:57 am. Yes. Really. Put down the kool-aid and step away from the table.
ReplyDeleteObama has about 12 years of experience in elected office. Eight years in the Illinois senate, 1997 to 2004, and about four years in the US Senate, 2005 to present. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
Clinton has less than eight years of experience in elected office, the US Senate from 2001 to present. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton . She voted against the Energy Act of 2005 - the act containing the ethanol blender's tax credit - thus she voted against the ethanol industry.
Obama's legislative experience is comparable to that of Lincoln, Bush I, Kennedy, and Nixon.
I out-grew smoking long ago, but feel free to light 'em if ya' got 'em. And then go run 20 laps around the library.