Breakfast at The Cabin with Jim and Wilma and the Catholics (a regular after Friday Mass ritual for some of the local religious folk). That was followed by Diane going to the tee shirt place (Rosie's) to get appropriate clothing to support not only the locals but also her favorite grandsons who go to school in the county to the north. Orange and white, black and gold. Adds a bit of color to a gray day in February. Btw, it's the 29th, that extra day of the year that comes around every four years. Doing anything special?
On politics and from Kevin Drum:
February 29, 2008
OBAMA vs. CLINTON....It's late and I don't have time to think of something really insightful to say about this, so I'll just throw it out. It's from the latest Pew poll, and it shows that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are likely to beat John McCain in a general election. What's odd, though, is something we've seen before: Hillary's strength among self-identified Democrats. Obama, as expected, draws a few more Republicans and independents than Hillary does, but Hillary has far fewer defections among Democrats. In all, 89% of Democrats would vote for her while only 81% would vote for Obama. Daniel Larison points out some additional detail:
Most remarkable of all is that Obama is weaker among Democrats in all age groups than Clinton. He is four points weaker, and McCain five points stronger, among Democratic voters aged 18-49 than in a Clinton v. McCain race. The losses are even greater among Democratic voters 50-64 and 65+.
In fact, in a matchup against McCain, the only subgroup of Democrats that supports Obama more than Hillary is African-Americans — and even in their case only by a tiny margin. I don't quite know what this means, but it's worth thinking about.
—Kevin Drum 3:19 AM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (93)
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