Showing the Obama-Clinton Divide in Decision Tree Infographic

Posted Apr 23, 2008 to Infographics by Nathan  /  25 responses

Showing the Obama-Clinton Divide in Decision Tree Infographic

Amanda Cox, of The New York Times, made another excellent graphic (and I wouldn't expect anything less). We see an entire story between Obama and Clinton - positions taken, counties won, and counties lost. Go ahead and take a look. Words bad. Picture good. Ooga. Booga.

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25 responses to "Showing the Obama-Clinton Divide in Decision Tree Infographic"
  • Morgaine
    Apr 23, 2008, 10:17 pm

    Makes perfect sense to me. My only question is - how do we get the older or poorly educated whites to get a clue from the younger or better educated people who know Obama is the best choice?


  • Bonnie
    Apr 24, 2008, 12:20 am

    Hey, Morgaine–We go talk to them. Find out what they’re concerned about, learn about their lives, and show them we care. That’s it. We talk to them. Find something in common, and educate.


  • Vic
    Apr 24, 2008, 12:43 am

    Let’s see. Non educated, poor whites vs. educated middle class whites. So basically, dumbasses are holding the country back. There is no point in talking to these people. They DON’T understand issues, they just see ‘black guy, no vote’.

    I have an idea. Pass legislation to stop dumbasses from voting.
    How’s that for elitism? I’m serious though, I wish there was someway to parse a educated researched vote from a uneducated retarded one.


  • Laila
    Apr 24, 2008, 1:20 am

    It just doesn’t seem fair that old people who won’t be around for the damage and stupid people who don’t know better get to decide my future.


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  • Margaret
    Apr 24, 2008, 3:03 am

    Well, Laila and all, by now the politicians have convinced everyone older than you are that they don’t care about the people, and they don’t even care that they don’t care!

    You are too young to be sick and tired of the political games, but the rest of us have been through it too many times to see your idealism as anything besides youthful exuberance not based in facts or history. We’ve already been through that year after year after year after year.


  • luke
    Apr 24, 2008, 8:24 am

    margaret - why on earth would Hillary be the answer to your political prayers? based upon what you have said.

    If Barack Obama is a false dawn then why would hil be otherwise?

    What if a portion of that exuberance (even a minute portion) carries Barack to the presidency - will he not then have a mandate for change? a mandate to combat the politics that have told “everyone older than you are they don’t care about the people”?

    come on, wake up. Hillary is not the answer, she has descended into a myopic cult of personality, in which the only tactics available to her are ‘rove-ian’, (or straus-ian, to be more accurate) i.e. re-image reality to suit your goals, with the tacit understanding that the populace is just too stupid to sift through and find out the actual reality.
    seriously, you can’t make this stuff up, read some strauss. The sad part about the hil thing is that she has so clearly donned the clothing of her oppressors. An act that is all too prevalent in history.

    wake up woman!


  • Cecile
    Apr 24, 2008, 8:55 am

    Interesting. It just miss the age factor, which seems to be a real deal in this election.


  • Scott Malensek
    Apr 24, 2008, 9:13 am

    I voted for Sen Obama here in Ohio, but after hearing his racist comments in San Fran while pandering to the uber left for cash…nope. Not gonna get my vote in the General
    http://www.floppingaces.net/20.....president/


  • Pirate
    Apr 24, 2008, 10:41 am

    Margaret, how do you know how old Laila is? She could be 45 years old. (She could even be a man, but I’m making a reasonable assumption that “Laila” is a female name.)


  • Pirate
    Apr 24, 2008, 10:49 am

    Vic, while I understand your feelings, I suggest you think back to your history classes– literacy testing as a requirement for voting was a tool used to keep blacks from voting in the past. Until people’s ignorance can be reliably assumed to be a matter of choice rather than unavailability of solid education, it is hard to advocate such tests as an ethical solution to “The Moron Problem”.

    Margaret, how do you know how old Laila is? She could be 45 years old. (She could even be a man, but I’m making a reasonable assumption that “Laila” is a female name.)


  • deek
    Apr 24, 2008, 11:57 am

    LOL, nice condescention in there.
    Couldn’t just leave it YES or NO?
    Gotta throw in the comments” YES - …highly educated…”

    When education = intelligence give me a call.


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  • Buck
    Apr 24, 2008, 5:23 pm

    “There is no point in talking to these people. They DON’T understand issues, they just see ‘black guy, no vote’. Pass legislation to stop dumbasses from voting.”

    Wow! That may be one of the most bigoted comments I’ve seen in a while. Got news for you Vic. They say the say thing about you.

    Good thing that legislation would never be passed because you no longer be allowed to vote.


  • JonO
    Apr 24, 2008, 6:43 pm

    Here’s a clue, Morgaine et al. You stop talking down to the people who don’t have the advantage of an ivory tower education. It doesn’t take a college education to recognize that Obama has a lot of supporters who are so busy congratulating themselves on their hgiher education that they forget to do simple math like how many people are like them and how many peole are there who aren’t.


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  • Dustin
    Apr 24, 2008, 9:54 pm

    Seriously, is anyone surprised?


  • deriuqer eman
    Apr 24, 2008, 10:59 pm

    The Clintons consistently made decisions that backed the oligarchs, whether they came in the guise of the military-industrial complex, the WTO, the IMF, the IADB, the World Bank; the Clinton period saw no abatement of the ongoing centralization of power, or in the continuing brutalization of the periphery; we know this about them, we know where they stand.

    But where do you think Obama will fall on these issues? Is it really likely that someone coddled and imprinted by an elite institution such as Harvard will differ much from the Clintons on these issues?

    What happened when the ugly truth of American neo-colonialism raised its head in this campaign, in the form of Obama’s minister’s statement about “blowback”? Did Obama stand up and say: “Yes, in fact the brutality of my nation’s actions over the past 50 years is having a predictably radicalizing effect around the world”? Of course he didn’t.

    So we know now where Obama stands, and it is not much different from the Clintons, or even Bush. Yes, there will be substantial differences in execution, but the over the fundamental issues there is little disagreement amongst our elites.

    The miracle of electoral politics lies in how one or the other side ends up looking “populist.”


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  • JS
    May 6, 2008, 8:19 pm

    Has anyone ever heard the term, “Educated Idiots”?

    Life experience is far more valuable than someone who has a college degree. The people that have put this country in this mess all had college educations. Young people may think they are so much smarter than older Americans but what do they really know?


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