Clinton Doesn’t Think Much About Democrats Outside NY, CA, & OH

Hillary Clinton and her band of political head hunters, aka campaign staff, are seemingly making a extensive effort to let it be known just how little Democrat voters outside of California, New York and Ohio mean to them and their campaign. I mean what do states like Georgia, Virginia, Colorado, and Maine, bring to the table? Well, according to Clinton and Company, absolutely nothing. Daily Kos has put together a quite the collaboration of evidence illustrating Clinton’s disregard for those democrats living in Vermont, Maryland, Illinois, Georgia, Alabama, Wisconsin, Washington D.C., Virginia, Louisiana, Utah, Missouri, Connecticut, Delaware, South Carolina, Washington State, Hawaii, Nebraska, Minnesota, Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, North Dakota, Colorado, Maine, and Iowa. Or any other state I may have missed who chose Senator Barack Obama instead of her:

“Could we possibly have a nominee who hasn’t won any of the significant states outside of Illinois? That raises some serious questions about Sen. Obama.” -Mark Penn

“I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress,” Clinton told the paper. “There has got to be something at work here. How can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That’s not the quality. That’s not the communitarianism, that’s not the openness I see in Iowa.” -Hillary Clinton

“It’s not a factor,” was how Clinton dismissed Obama victories in Maine, Nebraska, Louisiana, Virgin Islands and Washington state in an interview with WJLA and Politico on Monday. -Hillary Clinton

“You know, I know that there are three things, when you think about electability. Number one, I’ve been winning the big states we have to win. “You know, with all due respect, unless there’s a tsunami change in America, we’re never going to carry Alaska, North Dakota, Idaho. It’s just not going to happen. But we have to carry the states that I’m carrying, the primary states, the states that really have to be in the winning Democratic column.” -Hillary Clinton

“The caucuses aren’t good for her [Hillary Clinton]. They disproportionately favor upper-income voters who, who, don’t really need a president but feel like they need a change.” -Bill Clinton

“I think for superdelegates, the quality of where the win comes from should matter in terms of making a judgment about who might be the best general election candidate,” said Mark Penn, Mrs. Clinton’s senior campaign adviser. -Mark Penn

As for Louisiana, “You had a very strong and very proud African- American electorate, which I totally respect and understand,” Clinton said. She noted that the states she won on Super Tuesday were all states Democrats must win to succeed in the general election. Many of the states Obama won that night, such as Alaska and North Dakota, would not be competitive for Democrats next November, she said. -Hillary Clinton

“Superdelegates are not second-class delegates. The real second-class delegates are the delegates that are picked in red-state caucuses that are never going to vote Democratic.” -Joel Ferguson, Michigan campaign co-chair

“It is highly unlikely we will win Alaska or North Dakota or Idaho or Nebraska,” she said, naming several of Obama’s red state wins. “But we have to win Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, Michigan … And we’ve got to be competitive in places like Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma.” -Hillary Clinton

“I agree he’s done well in those caucus states we didn’t make as much of an effort as we probably should have,” Ickes said. “But those states simply are not going to vote this year for a Democratic president, Andrea. -Harold Ickes

Wow, what an immaculate 50 state strategy for the Clinton squad. I mean who cares about close to half the country, ya know, they probably wouldn’t vote Democratic anyway. If that isn’t the most asinine logic for a national campaign to base arguments on then I really do not know what is. What they brain trust and Clinton Incorporated fails to realize is that New York and California will be going Democratic no matter what this time around. I mean hell, I could be on the ticket and California and New York are still pulling the lever for the blue side. But what do I know anyways, by Hillary’s standards, I am just one of those “meaningless” voters living in an “irrelevant” state named Illinois. I just wonder if she is accepting donations from Democrats living in the very states which she, her husband, and campaign staff are all but writing off as non-existent.

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