For four days in Philadelphia, almost every comment I heard from Democratic operatives, pollsters and policy wonks reminded me of an old Jackie Mason line about married couples.“Ask them if they’re happy, you get a number. ‘Are you happy?…’ ‘Thirty-one years … ‘”Ask about Hillary Clinton’s prospects in November, you get a number—actually a lot of numbers. You get “2 percent every cycle,” a reference to the steady decrease in the clout of the white electorate. You get “the 6 percent spread,” from the 2012 exit poll finding that women were 53 percent of the electorate while men were 47 …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition
