Blog | Victory for Hillary 2012

UPDATE: TexasDarlin has a great post on this.

Here’s a beautiful illustration of Hillary’s strength in Appalachia and Barack’s big problem in November. (Click and drag the slider to turn Appalachia blue!)

The New York Times’ new columnist, Charles W. Blow, a specialist in race baiting those who support anybody but Barack, has achieved a new level of absurdity, arguing that Obama doesn’t need key states for the general election but at the same time will win them anyway.

How’s that? Blow says that Obama is toast in greater Appalachia, which extends over eastern and southern Pennsylvania and southeastern Ohio. Of course, forget about West Virginia and Kentucky. Obama has already dismissed those voters as demented bigots.

Blow does not report that Hillary beats McCain handily in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Missouri, and is competitive in Kentucky.

Instead, Blow disses voters across 12 states as “uneducated” for not voting for Obama. But wait, it doesn’t matter that they won’t vote for him. Why? Because, well, they will vote for him!

Blow writes in a rush of wishful thinking:

If he (Obama) wins New York and Pennsylvania (he lost both in the primaries) and flip-flopping Ohio (another primary loss) he will be in good position.

The electoral votes of the other heavily Appalachian states could be offset. For instance, if he wins Virginia (where a corner sits in Appalachia and which seems to be in play although it hasn’t swung Democratic in more than 40 years) and Florida (which almost swung — or maybe did swing — Democratic in 2000), he will have won more electoral votes than in Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky and West Virginia combined.

So, Obama won’t win these states, except that he will! Because Charles W. Blow says he will! Just because. Brilliant! It’s magic! Got that, superdelegates?