Hillary claims the support of hardworking white people in this clip from a May 7th conversation with USA TODAY: "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she says in the interview, which cites an article by the Associated Press. The article supposedly outlines (in Hillary's words) "how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
"There’s a pattern emerging here," she said.
Tuesday night, during coverage of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, Democratic strategist Paul Begala announces on CNN that the Obama Democrats "can't win with eggheads and African-Americans." Superdelegate Donna Brazile responds by (very politely, with oodles of class) ripping him a new one:
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Friday, May 9, 2008
Hillary plays the race card
Posted by Daisy Deadhead at 1:37 AM
Labels: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, CNN, Democrats, Donna Brazile, Hillary Clinton, Indiana, minorities, North Carolina, Paul Begala, race, racism, USA TODAY