Obama Wins in Landslide over McCain and Hillary

Sometimes numbers tell the story far more clearly than words. Whatever it is about Obama that appeals to voters, the trend continues: in yesterday’s primary in Wisconsin, he came home with about 646,000     votes. Hillary garnered 453,000. McCain, by comparison, 224,000, and Huckabee about 151,000. All by himself, Obama came within range of defeating Hillary and McCain put together; all by herself, Hillary outpolled the GOP field.

If the trend continues, we’re talking a Democratic landslide in November.

Which raises the question: How will the GOP and presumptive candidate McCain attack Obama?

A couple of clues have emerged in the last couple of days. According to a document prepared for a top-level GOP gathering in Beverly Hills, featuring Karl Rove among others, they’re going to go after Obama for: "inexperience," "undisciplined messaging," and "a pattern of voting present" in the Illinois legislature.

Hmmm. "Undisciplined messaging." Is that code that only Republicans can hear? Because it doesn’t sound so scary to me.

Somewhat more ominously, the far-right outfit that calls itself Accuracy in Media is calling on the media to report on a relationship Obama had thirty years ago with Frank Marshall Davis, a black poet and member of the Communist Party (of the USA). Cliff Kincaid claims that this was a "secret" and that Davis was somehow associated with the Soviet Union, but has to admit that Davis was eighty years old when Obama knew him…and also a columnist for the local newspaper, the Honolulu Record.

What’s more, this too turns out to be old news. Obama discussed the relationship in his first book, Dreams from My Father. Further, this potential issue has already been aired in a major campaign. When Obama ran for the Senate in 2004, his GOP opponent Alan Keyes  called Davis a "hard-core academic Marxist."

This accusation so frightened the Illinois electorate that they elected Obama by a 73-24% margin.

Translation: They got nothing. What will they make up?