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To: Katelew who wrote (55931)	3/24/2008 9:56:53 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543541

Clinton's gaffe in SC, which was nothing more than a statement of truth, Which he made very deliberately to dismiss the importance of the size of Obama's win there. It's three steps below damning with faint praise; it is patronizing and condescending and dismissive. If someone said Hillary won certain primaries with a large female vote, just because she is a woman, that may be factually correct. But it would be a dismissive political insult. Which is how everybody outside Hillary's camp followers perceived it. That gaffe probably did a lot to keep Obama in the race after Super Tuesday, instead of being knocked out as expected.

To: Katelew who wrote (55931)	3/24/2008 10:02:55 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 543541

Clinton's gaffe in SC, which was nothing more than a statement of truth, was made into a strawman by the press. I'm afraid I disagree, Kate. The first reaction was from the black population in SC. I recall the dean of the SC US House contingent, Clyburn, I believe, denouncing Clinton's statement as an attempt to picture Obama as a candidate of the black electorate rather than the entire electorate. I have no idea what the intention was. But it was read that way by far more than simply the press. And it fit into a developing pattern from there on out.