Woe Is Hillary

Next time someone tries to tell you that poor Hillary is losing because sexism is more palatable than racism. Or because the press hates her. Or because the youth are fickle and prefer the rock star. Or whatever other pity party they want you to buy into, just remember. Remember just how many advantages she came into this race with: 

• Huge name recognition. 

• Aura of inevitability 

• Wife of extremely popular former president. 

• Tons of money. 

• Institutional infrastructure. 

• Lack of soul (oops, couldn't resist). 

Then there are the party numbers that this Washington Monthly reader points out:

Hillary Clinton is running for the nomination of a party that is majority white/ethnic, by a 70/30 ratio, and majority female, by a 60/40 ratio. Despite these overwhelming advantages which identity politics should give her, she is actually losing to a black male candidate by every statistical measure that you could devise.

All of which merely tells us what a god-awful lousy candidate she really is.

And Ferraro has the gall to say that Obama has an advantage because he's black? If he were a playing on a demographically level playing field, he'd be beating Hillary by a margin of 3-1 right now.

Hillary owes all of her success to the fact that she is a white woman running against a black man in a party which is 40% white women and about 15% black men.