From the Original WaPo story:
A strategist with close ties to leaders in Congress said Democratic Senate candidates in competitive races would be strongly urged to distance themselves from Clinton.
"The argument with Hillary right now in some of these red states is she's so damn unpopular," said Andy Arnold, chairman of the Greenville, S.C., Democratic Party. "I think Hillary is someone who could drive folks on the other side out to vote who otherwise wouldn't."
Ron Fornier (R - scumbag) leaves out the fact Arnold is part of the
John Edwards campaign and recently had this to say about Barack Obama:
Greenville County Democratic Party chairman Andy Arnold hears it frequently among blacks, who are supporting Clinton in greater numbers in recent polls.
"A lot of the African-Americans are with Hillary because I think they don't believe white America is ready for a black president," said Arnold, who is white and uncommitted in the race. "They want to win and so in a way, I think it is a barrier to him. And it may be more so in the South where the remnants of the old South are still in the older folks mind. They just can't believe in their right mind that white folks will elect a black man president, so let's not put ourselves through that agony."
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:Ls7BqPe0TbQJ:apnews.myway.com/article/20070727/D8QL6QOO0.html+%22andy+arnold%22+south+carolina&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=usWhat say you, Mr. Fornier?
But wait, there's more! GQ Magazine quotes Thomas F. Schaller, author of "Whistling Past Dixie," a book the netroots seemed to adore a year or so ago.
Obama’s name on the ticket will almost certainly boost the number of African-Americans at the polls, so Democrats finally have a chance to pick off a state or two in the South, right? Wrong. According to Thomas F. Schaller, author of Whistling Past Dixie, an uptick of black votes in the South is usually offset by retaliatory voting from whites. And while Obama is not positioning himself as a Sharpton or a Jackson, postracial campaign themes won’t matter much in places where GOP voting is still wedded to racial hostility. Schaller doesn’t call it a “blacklash” for nothing.
http://men.style.com/gq/features/full?id=content_5365&pageNum=4So Democrats you should give up. Hillary is a drag, Obama is a drag, and Edwards did not win his own home state in 2004 and is way behind Hillary and Obama in the Carolinas in 2007. So give up Democrats, go home.
(this post was paraphrased from a post at Hillaryis44.com)