Clinton's Southern Strategy?

[FedoraLV]

This was a much longer post with newspaper clippings from the primary races in the South, but my original post vaporized. Here's the nub of it:

"The Obama campaign will call on the Clinton campaign to explain these remarks and a pattern of dismissing Southern states throughout this campaign ...."
<http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080305/NEWS01/80305018>

The articles I had lined up had statements from Clinton and her top campaign officials which characterized her losses in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, and Louisiana as being due to 1) caucuses rather than primaries 2) the high participation of African-American voters 3) the lack of preparedness and campaigning by the Clinton campaign.

(If Florida was a fair and ordinary primary, then why are we talking about disenfranchisement and a re-vote?)

We have traditionally not done well when when we have dismissed the South in the GE and we would do well not to run a candidate who has a pattern of alienating African Americans voters in these primaries: <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/6/0/6/0/p60607_index.html>

-FedoraLV