Sunday, May 18, 2008

If McCain had said that...

Greg Pollowitz finds an interresting excuse why Barry's losing in Kentucky

"What it says is that I'm not very well known in that part of the country," Obama said. "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle."


Now what's wrong with that statement?

Everyone go back to your elementary geography.

Greg has the result here

That's right, not only is Kentucky closer to Illinois than Arkansas... it borders Illinois.

Barry's a busy man; it's not like he needs to recall the five states that border the one he represents in the Senate. That's a whole 10% of the states... well that depends on if you think there's 50 states in this country.

My point here isn't so much to prove how... sloppy Barry is. He could have been talking about the culture or the three states in question. Though I wonder if he's seen what Southren Illinois is like. He also could have been tired.

But the question you have to ask yourself is, what if McCain had made a slip like that? If he had said Texas was closer to Arizona than Utah?

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