Ohio Voters and How They Perfectly Represent America

One of the problems with political pundits you see all over the airwaves is that they are unable to have two divergent thoughts at the same time. Yes, Hillary lost within the voter group of white people earning less than $50,000/year in Maryland, but she’d won them overwhelmingly up to that point. In Wisconsin, she won that group by three points, so she must be getting them back.

The truth of the matter is, this is not her base of voters. People do not see someone whose husband started NAFTA as the savior of their jobs. The simple fact is, people who earn less money, earn less money usually because they, as a product of their surroundings, aren’t able to tie many different news stories together, or don’t hang out in the type of crowd that would discuss politics on a regular basis, or don’t have an office job that allows them to check the news now and again, or flatly, they just don’t have time due to raising their family or working two jobs to concern themselves with politics on a regular basis to know what the candidates stand for and how that will affect them.

There is a reason it took a Hurricane destroying a city for the masses in America to realize the Bush administration was incompetent. There is a reason it took Americans years of corruption in Iraq to realize it was more of a money grab than trying to save us from terrorists that weren’t there until we got there. There is a reason the masses never understood why it was bad when the administration was lying about evidence we had to go into Iraq and committing treason exposing CIA agents who had family members who point out these lies. The masses are never able to grasp these concepts in real time is because factory workers, farm workers, and other lower wage earners do not live in a real time world. However, eventually, the world catches up to them and they eventually see things as the rest of the world does, which seems to be a good thing.

Barack Obama’s message is catching up with the masses in Ohio. High numbers of blue collar workers do not favor Hillary because that is her base, it favors Hillary because it takes time for an alternate and new message to penetrate this group. Hillary’s “base” has been voting for her because she is the only name they’ve recognized due to her husband’s success and downfall in the 90’s. However, Hillary’s positives at this point have been reduced to white older women (and even that is being cut into) and an unknown quantity known as the quick passage of time before the next state election. The longer it takes for time to pass, the longer the person with the better message has to get their word out. Barack and a little time will likely do for Ohio and its workers what time has done for America…catch it up with reality.

With 10 days to campaign before the vote on March 4, I suspect reality wins big.

The Oompa Loompas can sing and make a mad Everlasting Gobstopper, but that leaves little time for reading about Richard Clarke (Terrorism Czar) warning Condoleeza Rice about Al Qaida’s immenent attack on the US and her not taking that to the President or Bush’s instruction for Clarke to find a link between 9/11 and Iraq.