The Will Rhodes Portmanteau

Hillary Clinton won W VA - not that is was any surprise, not that anything about her dwindling campaign is a surprise. She won a state that a friend of mine calls bigoted.

He also tells the story of retiree Victoria Switzer, who was working the phone bank one night:

One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn’t possibly vote for Obama and concluded: “Hang that darky from a tree!”

Is she wrong? It seems not, not that CNN will come out and say it - after all they need to be as PC as possible in this day and age.

Why would super-delegates go for her after such a win as last night, would they put the prospect of the fate of the USA into the hands of a few white, uneducated people?

Clinton’s largest margins, as expected, were registered among voters at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder. Among white voters without a college degree, Clinton defeated Obama by 50 points. Among white voters making less than $30,000 a year, Clinton’s margin of victory was more than 60 points.

Is it the point that she promised something that she, nor McCain, can deliver - 18c off the price of a gallon of gas? Again, seems so.

Clinton’s proposal to suspend the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal gasoline tax for the summer — an idea belittled by most economists and rejected by Obama as a political gimmick — proved to be a winner in West Virginia. Voters supported the gas tax suspension by an almost 2-to-1 margin. Those voters who supported suspending the gas tax broke for Clinton, 74 to 19 percent.

Are people who are undereducated that slow that all they see is a few cents, $20 over a summer, and not the larger picture? Is the American education system failing these people so badly?

Or is it that Barack Obama is black? Is the American consciousness so steeped in a dislike of anyone who is not white that no matter what benefit that person could bring to society as a whole will be vilified?

If the Democratic party give the nomination to Clinton on the back of her winning these states, states that seem to show more grievance against someone who is not white rather than the person who has - as is proven in the whole statistic - won more popular vote, more delegates, more super-delegates then there is something wrong in the Democratic party, something very wrong. If they give it to her because with these states she was push for a slight win over John McCain and this will give the Democrats power, there isn’t just something wrong with the Democratic party but America as a whole.

She wants power - that is obvious, but getting power by such means demeans her and what the Democratic party should stand for. If she gets into power nothing will change for the American people - if Obama gets in; there is every chance that he will make the change that is needed.

Which would you go for?