Can Obama keep up with Hillary's mutations?
by NYCO
Mon Mar 10, 2008 at 09:29:43 AM PDT
I just had to pass on this link to a new NYT story about the Clinton campaign's plans to use the Rodham family's working-class background in Scranton to solidify her status there in favorable parts of Pennsylvania.
The comment I'd like to make on this: In 2000, Hillary ran for Senator, where it was thought (and rightly so) that Upstate New York would tough ground for her to take. It didn't turn out to be, so much; she was pretty successful at playing First Lady and keeping Bill highly visible on a leash. That worked... eight years ago.
However, if she'd ever used the "Scranton strategy" with Upstate voters, it probably would have worked very well for her. Although there are no coal mines here, a lot of Upstate New York is in the so-called "Dunder Mifflin Triangle" - same working-class history, hit by the same globalization forces, same determination to survive.
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