Barack Obama talks so eloquently about turning down the temperature and all this stuff, but some of his supporters don't seem to get it.
There's a recommended diary over at DK calling Hillary out for "dirty politics" in NH because she played hardball with a pro-choice mailer. Yeah, it was a little misleading, but not dirty politics.
How conveniently they forget the sins of their own candidate, to wit:
At least Hillary was attacking from a liberal frame, not a reactionary one.
The diary also calls a squabble about Obama's GOTV operation in Nashua's ward 9 "voter suppression." That's not a fair characterization.
For the record, 2,137 people voted in ward 9, 881 for Hillary and 786 for Obama, so she took a net win of 95 votes. Obama lost by about 8,000.
Turnout in ward 9 was up 23% over 2004. It was up 27% citywide for all of Nashua. Hillary won every single ward in Nashua. It's not clear at all to me that even more turnout in ward 9 would have helped Obama.
Even if it had, it wouldn't have helped by much.
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