Posted on 11/10/2007 4:33:44 PM PST by shrinkermd
Race remains a wild card in American politics. Candidates such as Mr. Ford, who narrowly lost the Senate race in Tennessee last year, have often come close to election only to find race flaring at the last minute to blunt their momentum.
"Obama knows that just because people are saying one thing doesn't mean they will vote that way...
Sen. Obama's popularity among whites also stirs uneasiness among many blacks. In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll1, Sen. Obama trails Sen. Clinton among black voters 46% to 37%.
"Obama doesn't really push people to consider what diversity really is," says Alfred DeFreece, a black teacher at Eastern Michigan University, who says many of his white students favor Obama. "He is close enough to what is a tolerated white norm, very much what is palatable and acceptable and good." Mr. DeFreece says he wonders whether Sen. Obama would be able to aggressively push social programs that help blacks in poverty and end discrimination.
...About 75% of whites and 55% of blacks describe black-white relations as "somewhat good or very good," according to a recent Gallup poll. About 75% of whites and 85% of blacks say they support interracial marriage. In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 63% of registered voters said they believe voters are prepared to elect a qualified African-American as president, a dramatic increase from 1986 when just 29% said they thought America was ready to elect a black president. In the current poll, just 46% of voters say voters today are ready to elect a qualified Hispanic as president and 38% a qualified Mormon.
Sen. Obama runs stronger among younger voters who are at the forefront of many of these changing attitudes...
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Color has nothing to do with it. It's the socialist pap like that coming out of his mouth that's the problem.
I married out of my faith. As far as my daughter is concerned I would have no problem if she married out of her faith, ethnicity or race. However, I would hope that my daughter marries someone that is honest, hardworking and devoted to his family.
I’m sure he was very liberal.
I never understood why Ann backed him except that she just kinda liked him and didn’t know Coker. Silly reason to back someone, but she sure did. I guess that’s the “charm” working for him. He’s quite a bit smarter than the rest of his family. (That’s saying something huh?)
Personally, I don’t mind listening to him debate. I don’t think i ever agreed with him on anything tho.
Barak HUSSEIN Obama colorblind?
He’s totally written off any “White” Heritage he has and is totally Afro-Centric. Has anyone ever seen the homepage of his “Church”? It (Unless it has been radically changed) totally identifies with “Black Culture” and “Black People” while not mentioning the Gospel of Jesus Christ one time.
These White leftists and other assorted naive Whites are delusional.
I found how the World had been misled by prostitute Writers,
to ascribe the greatest Exploits in War to Cowards,
the wisest Counsel to Fools,
Sincerity to Flatterers,
Roman Virtue to Betrayers of their Country,
Piety to Atheists,
Chastity to Sodomites,
Truth to Informers.
(III:8;5) Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
“Candidates such as Mr. Ford, who narrowly lost the Senate race in Tennessee last year, have often come close to election only to find race flaring at the last minute to blunt their momentum.”
Tennessee didnt reject Harold Ford Jr because he is black...
TN rejected Harold Ford Jr because he is a Ford and a Democrat...
Sounds like an OC congressperson, who re-registered as a Democrat, started using her Hispanic lastname, and even acquired an accent to get herself elected to the House of Reps.
ROFLMAO
Which is why anyone who thinks that there is a competitive Dem primary is nuts. Hillary is going to be the nominee.
Pretending there is a real race for the nomination gives the political pundits something to talk about, and gives the media a pretext for giving the ‘Rats a lot of free air time to spout class warfare, government solutions to all of our problems, surrender to the jihadists, and other themes beloved of the Democrat base.
Hillary is the least impressive Democratic candidate since Walter Mondale in 1984.
If the Republican nominee in the debate were to make a crack about Hillary's "youth and inexperience," it would only be stretching it in the case of her age.
Hillary have never been truly battle tested. That is my point. And she is not charismatic like her husband is. Media is given Hillary a free ride. But people like us FReepers won’t give her a benefit of the doubt and that is one of our advantages of 2008.
In the general election, whoever the Republican nominee is, her strategy will be to destroy him rather than to try to show that she is better qualified. Each of the five who could potentially win the Republican nomination has vulnerabilities and the Clintons will exploit those to destroy whoever the nominee is.
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