A response to Ross: the blade of race is a double-edged sword!

Ross, first let me thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to offer your answer to my blog question of why Hillary can't close the deal.

It is indeed true that Hillary is perceived as a congenital liar. I mean Stevie Wonder could have seen the difference between a hail of bullets and receiving flowers as Senator Clinton said happened to her while getting off a plane in Bosnia. However, I could not disagree with you more about her electability. I do not think she is more electable than Senator Obama.

No doubt the Democratic Party is in a pickle over how they are going to resolve the issue of taking a chance on an unknown who seems to be galvanizing voters to do what no other politician has gotten them to do in very large numbers - VOTE. Hopefully, that decision will be made May 31st. What your response failed to mention is that it will not only be black voters upset if the nomination goes to the candidate who has NOT won the most delegates, who has NOT won the popular vote and who is ahead by just 2 super delegates (although I'm sure that will change soon if it hasn't already). It will be all voters upset - white, black, Latino, Asian and everything in between.

You say I can't say that Obama is getting the white vote (citing Pennsylvania, Indiana, and North Carolina as examples). What about Iowa where the population is majority white? What about New Hampshire where Clinton may have won but she only won by 2% - 39% to 37% over Obama? These are 2 of the whitest states in the country. Obama is getting enough of the white vote to win....and a win is a win! Besides, Hillary is not running away with the white vote in every single category. Barack won 57% of the under 30 vote in Iowa and I guarantee you the majority of voters in that state are white. And let's not forget that no Democrat has ever won the presidency without winning the black vote. So Hillary can play the race card at her own peril. I do believe that if enough new and frustrated voters - regardless of race - come out and vote for Barack, he will be the next President of the United States. And all these race, gender, economic percentages will be buried next to all those hanging chads in the political bone-yard in the sky.

As for Obama not being able to close the deal because he's lost many of the most important Democratic states, I say everything about this election thus far has been unorthodox and unusual. Think about it - a prior First Lady who's a United States senator running against another senator who happens to be an African American named Obama. But if there's one thing I know about politics is just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it won't happen. There are many voters from all walks of life who are tired of the "old guard" which Senator Clinton represents - and just like Senator Obama - they are ready to make history!

Thanks sweet-pea for your response.

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