Another "White Guy Election"

Thomas Edsall, a former Washington Post writer, tells us the truth about the upcoming election:

Hillary Clinton's release Monday of her first Osama bin Laden ad sets the stage for a general contest that Republicans could only dream about: an election fought over issues of patriotism, 1960s radicalism, liberal elites, gun control, terrorist threats, intimidation by a black preacher, and a 3AM phone call signaling enemy attack.

With the bin Laden spot, Clinton has set the stage for an election in which a crucial voting block will once again be white men, and the issues will be those that tend to push these voters to the right, towards the Republican Party, regardless of which Democrat is the nominee.

The dirty little secret is that elections are typically about white men. Gore and Kerry each lost white men by huge margins and right now, I would find it hard to believe either Hillary or Obama will do any better.