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Feb 11 2008
OK, Hillary, where are YOUR activists?
Noting that “my husband never did well in caucus states either,” Clinton argued that caucuses are “primarily dominated by activists” and that “they don’t represent the electorate, we know that.”
Now, I don’t care which candidate you support–personally, I support Obama, but that’s neither here nor there for the purposes of this post.
The fact that any candidate for the Democratic nomination can openly dismiss activists in such condescending terms is shocking. Senator Clinton apparently thinks that people who actually care enough about issues and are invested enough in a candidate to actually go out and suspend the routine of their daily lives to try to make a difference for the causes and candidates they support are in some way hijacking the “will of the electorate.”
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