Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau

David Weigel fails to understand the importance of swing blocs in key states:

The reason Republicans, until their recent meltdown, were trying to make gains with suburban, exurban, and Hispanic voters, is that those voters numbers’ are growing, and the numbers of white, James Agee-worthy whites are, proportionately, decreasing. It’s a weird exercise, making a sainted class out of an electoral bloc that’s becoming less representative and less desirable.

Look, it’s really quite simple: If there were a significant population of undecided gray aliens in Pennsylvania, right now Hillary Clinton would be talking fondly about her abduction by aliens and all the life lessons learned on that space ship. She’d be scolding Barack Obama for the way he demeans them. Obama, in turn, would say that he understands their bitterness when the US government has spent decades promising change but instead dissecting their kin in Area 51. But if all the gray aliens lived in states like California, Texas, South Dakota, or Vermont, i.e. states that aren’t even close and don’t matter for the nomination? Then we’d never hear a peep (or telepathic signal) about them. If anything, we’d hear about the need to build a big fence and hope that the aliens don’t learn how to fly over it.