"No wonder those YouTube women are so mad."

I enjoyed Katherine Scalia's look at Barack Obama as the new trophy wife of the Democratic Party:

As a trophy wife, Obama would be content to let the Democrats pull out of Iraq; Hillary might actually suggest they stay. Obama would be able to sell the socialized health care Hillary couldn't pull off. Most importantly, Obama would schmooze and photo-op with the elites for whose approval the Democrats so desperately yearned; Hillary was untrustworthy, there. She might snub Ahmadinejad and, like Bill Clinton before her, pledge to jump into a trench with a rifle to defend Israel. Obama would smile and look good while doing neither.

Putting both to the scales, light Obama rose in the balance; Hillary was judged too heavy. The Democrats threw over the tried and true to go with the trophy wife. The one they could train and show off to the world as "theirs," who was the very image of everything they hope to project about themselves, regardless of the realities.

If Obama is the trophy wife, little wonder he doesn't want to share the stage with the old wife he replaced.

But will John McCain be able to successfully court those who collectively represent the spurned old wife?

That depends on how mad they really are, and long they stay mad.


Check out this video.

(I couldn't get it to embed, so the embed was deleted.)

MORE: Speaking of "those YouTube women" and whether McCain can court them, here's an interesting poll result which hasn't gotten much play:

This resentment is reflected in a private nationwide poll conducted this month by McLaughlin and Associates, which usually works for Republicans but is not connected with the McCain campaign. Poll-taker John McLaughlin found that John McCain had a 49 percent to 38 percent edge over Obama among all women. That is an extraordinary result, running counter to a longtime Democratic advantage.
It certainly is an extraordinary result.

Maybe that's why it's not getting much play.

MORE: Jim Geraghty says the above poll is "likely to be widely overlooked."

Well, I'm sure the specialists in widely overlooking would like it to be.

But what happens when the widely overlooked becomes widely linked?

posted by Eric on 06.08.08 at 02:32 PM





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I'd prefer the poll be widely overlooked. The Dems won't work on problems they don't see.

Steve Skubinna   ·  June 8, 2008 08:10 PM

hmmm, trophy wives...now thats a good topic for McCainiacs to be raising, doncha think?

Yeah, lets have an extended discussion of the phenomenon of trophy wives, and how that might intersect with ambitious pols. OK?

joe citizen   ·  June 8, 2008 08:51 PM

Sure, joe. Let's have Cindy McCain and you debate that publicly.

Assistant Village Idiot   ·  June 9, 2008 04:32 PM

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