Barack Obama may be struggling to peel Democrats away from Hillary Clinton’s camp, but there is one segment of voters with which Obama appears to have, both statistically and anecdotally, a considerable advantage over Clinton and his other primary campaign opponents: disaffected Republicans. Jay Newton-Small just posted a smart piece on Obama’s appeal to erstwhile Republicans in red states like Nebraska and Oklahoma and purple ones like Kentucky and Virginia. Check it out.
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- Why “severely conservative” was not a good phrase for Romney.
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