Mass media commentators imperiously brand presidential Hillary Clinton a loser seeking redemption after her failed 2008 effort because upstart Barack Obama expropriated her seemingly inevitable nomination. Never mind that she polled 272,809 more popular ballots than Obama without including an estimated 100,000 more to her plurality had blatantly pro-Obama Democratic kingmakers not banished Michigan’s primary from the race.

Obama triumphed via inside baseball strategies concocted by party bosses anointing him regardless of what registered Democrats had to say. She cleaned his clock in the battle for voters, though he won the super-delegate war at the convention, so she was a loser in only the most sordid connotation of the word.

This resulted because demographic research determined that white voters are six times likelier to cross ballot racial lines than people of color. America is 12 percent black so Democrats wisely exploited that huge advantage. (A contagious trend, African-American candidate Herman Cain was the early front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination until his adultery habit surfaced.)

This is relevant in 18 percent black and 27 percent Hispanic New London because there is no current non-white mayoral candidate. If an even remotely viable one (whoever heard of Obama and Cain when they declared?) enters the race, watch what happens.

Martin Crane

New London