Rendell, that is ............. acting like an ass indeed
Quote:
"You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate," Rendell told the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in remarks that appeared in Tuesday's paper.
To buttress his point, Rendell cited his 2006 re-election campaign, in which he defeated Republican challenger Lynn Swann, the former Pittsburgh Steelers star, by a margin of more than 60 percent to less than 40 percent.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23134717/?GT1=10856
while i'm sure this is true to a degree, it's hard not to discount bigots and closed minded people anywhere - there are also very conservative black men who want nothing to do with electing some white woman
shouldn't be an issue and making a statement like this is pretty much saying "vote clinton if you want a dem president because the black man is going to scare the conservative white dems/independents into voting rep......"
also it's kind of trivial and sad he's equating his results to this potential contest
he was the incumbent governor, popular former mayor of the states largest metropolitan area
also swann was running as a republican and carried all the areas where a republican should win in the state
basically rendell is saying that bigoted white republicans won't vote for a black person so his margin of victory was very, very high - as opposed to very high ..................... guess what, that 5% swing he's looking at isn't voting for hilary either
politics in it's lowest form
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