In an interview with USA Today, Hillary Clinton said this: “I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.”  She then cited an Associated Press article that said “how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”  And then:  “There’s a pattern emerging here.”

Did you catch all that?  “Hard-working Americans.”  “White Americans.”  “A pattern.”  Meaning:  “I’ve got the white vote, which won’t go for the black guy in November, so y’all better line up with me if you know what’s good for you.”

It’s only a matter of minutes before she delivers a Bill-like “gaslighting” projection :  “They’re playing the race card on me.”

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