Progress Illinois

Check out this quote from Hillary Clinton yesterday:

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.

Good lord almighty. Talk about going all in.

As I documented recently, national head-to-head polling against McCain shows that both Clinton and Obama are poised to lose the white vote in the general election by about ten points. Moreover, their expected share of the white electorate is pretty much on par with the support received by the Democratic candidate in the past four presidential elections.

As Steve M. at No Mister Nice Blog put it yesterday: "[I]t’s a myth that Democrats had Joe Sixpack in their back pockets until that snooty arugula-eater Barack Obama came along, and it’s a myth that they suffer crushing defeats when bowlers and boilermaker-drinkers aren’t on board."