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Gore1FL

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Sun May-04-08 01:45 PM
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69. Bellwethers don't work like that

If winning a bellwether meant winning everywhere, then candidates would only campaign in bellwethers.

additionally, polls this far out are meaningless.

Finally, the argument that Hillary can win here but Obama cannot flies in the face of the "Obama cannot win states in a GE that Hillary won in the nomination phase"--not that that argument ever made any sense.

Ultimately the person wins in November is the person who can be more competitive in the most states. If Democrats are ever going to win again, the red-state blue-state paradigm needs to be shattered.

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