Matthews losing it again

Chris Matthews says last night's result in North Carolina shows that North Carolina is a "more forward looking state than Pennsylvania." This is utter rubbish if MSNBC's exit polls are to be believed. According to their exit polls, Obama got 91% of the African-American vote in North Carolina and 90% of the African-American vote in Pennsylvania. Obama received 37% of the white vote in both states. There was absolutely no difference between the two states in the white vote according to their exit polls. The difference in the result was that in North Carolina 34% of the voters were African-American versus 15% in Pennsylvania.

Matthews then gushed about North Carolina's universities explaining why North Carolina is so "forward looking." For the record, Matthews, one of the few counties Obama carried was Centre County - home to Penn State - in lilly-white central Pennsylvania.

Matthews is sadly little more than an old drunk's collection of anecdotes, prejudices and axes to grind.