Does It Bother You That Obama's Middle Name Is Hussein?

JimEverett said

With hillary Democrats give themselves a fighting chance - a replay of 2000 and 2004. With Obama the risk is a blowout loss, and at the same time a blowout win.
I guess you can look at it as an insight to personality. Between the two I favor Hillary, and I almost always hedge my risks.

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Which gets back to what you and I have already touched on -- among the hurdles each face, which are the toughest to overcome?

I agree with you that Obama is almost certainly facing some very tough challenges to his personal background (blatant or covert). I can't realistically believe that his race and familial-ties to Islam will just be allowed to fly under the radar.

The question becomes, are the challenges he faces more insurmountable than the ones she faces? Though that is typical of any election, it's compounded because these are anything but typical candidates.

Certainly there is a subset of voters who will never vote for Obama (not counting those who have reasonably disqualified him -- or will -- because they don't like his policies, he doesn't represent their ideology, and/or they are uncomfortable with his relative inexperience.) The same is true of Clinton -- there is a core of voters who will never vote for her, whether it's because of gender that she's a Clinton.