New Dem Constituency: Redneck Racists

In today’s First Read, Mark Murray details “Hillary’s Final Pitch.” Her final argument to superdelegates relies on just one thing: electability. She and Bill are also talking a lot lately about the popular vote, but that argument is specious in the extreme, because it depends entirely on the inclusion of votes from the non-contested and uncounted Florida and Michigan primaries. Counting uncounted votes appears to be, well… Clintonesque.

Leaving only the electability argument. From Murray’s post:

“Recent polls and election results show a clear trend: I am ahead in states that have been critical to victory in the past two elections,” Clinton writes in a letter to these superdelegates. “From Ohio, to Pennsylvania, to West Virginia and beyond, the results of recent primaries in battleground states show that I have strong support from the regions and demographics Democrats need to take back the White House.

RedPhoneDiaries interpretation of the Clinton Electability Argument: We have discovered a new Democratic constituency, the Redneck Racists. They came out to the polls in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and Kentucky to vote for me, Hillary Clinton, and they will never vote for Barack Obama. Therefore, only I can beat John McCain.