Given the overall mood of the political blogosphere . . .

[mojave_wolf]

I posted this as a comment over at Anglachel's blog earlier, thought I'd repost it here (for a more positive take, see here: http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27616) (from an electoral horse-race point of view, NC was about what I expected and Indiana

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This may be a more detailed answer than you want if you really don't care . . .

[mojave_wolf]

Well, I think most of the genuinely people are in the Republican party, contrary to what some of Obama's supporters seem to think. Sexism is probably more evenly spread through the parties and rampant in the media, plus the same areas that are most racist are probably usually the most sexist, so I don't think she got a big plus there.

I thought she would lose huge in NC, partly because I remember the Clinton hatred in the South from when I used to go back home every year, and partly because of the 33% African American turnout in the democratic primary, which was about what I expected--until her #'s ticked up after Pennsylvania I thought she would lose by 20% or more.

I'm more surprised that it was so close in Indiana, though that is about what I expected it to be right after Penn--just made the mistake of believing the polls that showed her w/a solid win there, since prior to this most of the polls other than SUSA had been way off in his favor, and SUSA had her fairly solid in Indiana -- then again they had her too close in NC too, whereas previously they had been the one reasonably accurate polling service. Not sure what happened there.