Will We Unite?
Saturday’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner was the biggest ever in North Carolina.
And the most divided.
When the Governor gets booed, you know feelings run high. It’s like those state Republican conventions back in the 1970s when the moderates and the Jessecrats were at war.
Can the split be healed by November? My guess is that it can, but only if Obama is the nominee.
This may be an oversimplification, but Clinton’s supporters – being older and more jaded – probably will be more willing to accept Obama than vice versa.
The Obama people – young people and minorities – will feel betrayed if Obama is denied. Many of them are involved in politics for the first time. They’re young and idealistic. They don’t have the same scar tissue as the Clinton supporters.
Plus, Obama has won the most delegates. Clinton can win only by persuading the superdelegates to overturn that result – or by winning a bloody battle over seating Michigan and Florida.
One thing becomes more likely as this long war goes on: Whoever wins will pick the other as his or her running mate.
Will We Unite?
Saturday’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner was the biggest ever in North Carolina.
And the most divided.
When the Governor gets booed, you know feelings run high. It’s like those state Republican conventions back in the 1970s when the moderates and the Jessecrats were at war.
Can the split be healed by November? My guess is that it can, but only if Obama is the nominee.
This may be an oversimplification, but Clinton’s supporters – being older and more jaded – probably will be more willing to accept Obama than vice versa.
The Obama people – young people and minorities – will feel betrayed if Obama is denied. Many of them are involved in politics for the first time. They’re young and idealistic. They don’t have the same scar tissue as the Clinton supporters.
Plus, Obama has won the most delegates. Clinton can win only by persuading the superdelegates to overturn that result – or by winning a bloody battle over seating Michigan and Florida.
One thing becomes more likely as this long war goes on: Whoever wins will pick the other as his or her running mate.