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Idaho counters racist image with strong Obama support
Idaho Statesman ^
| Dan Popkey
Posted on 02/06/2008 9:08:42 AM PST by Domandred
Idaho, long mischaracterized as a racist hotbed, was the best state for Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday. Obama's 80 percent in Idaho topped his 64 percent showing in his home state of Illinois.
Obama's win - his most decisive showing in any state - came three days after he became the first major presidential candidate to visit Idaho near an election since Sen. Frank Church in 1976. Church was a Boise native.
Obama's big margin supplies an effective retort to the wrongheaded claim that racism is tolerated in Idaho.
"It speaks for itself," said Boise Mayor Dave Bieter, who gave the nominating speech for Obama at the Ada County caucus. "His coming here was monumental. I think he would have done well, but that made a big difference."
A crime spree by a handful of neo-Nazis based at the Aryan Nations church in North Idaho in the 1980s led many Americans to say they knew two things about Idaho: potatoes and neo-Nazis.
The Idaho Department of Commerce tailored a promotional campaign to ease the image problem, in part because some employers reported problems recruiting talented minority workers. Never mind that in 2000, a Coeur d'Alene jury awarded more than $6 million to victims of violence by Aryan Nations members. The 20-acre church compound is now a peace park.
(Excerpt) Read more at idahostatesman.com ...
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: idaho; obama
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I'm not an Obama supporter, but I thought this article was interesting.
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:08:49 AM PST
by
Domandred
To: Domandred
What do you expect from I ‘da ho...?
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:11:29 AM PST
by
Snardius
To: Domandred
Still not any Black contestants for Miss America willing to wear the state banner.
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:11:36 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
To: Domandred
If they didn’t vote for obama it’s racist? Wow. Well sign me up. I don’t care that he has no plans other than “change”. I wanna not be a racist.
Regards
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:13:05 AM PST
by
ARE SOLE
(Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
To: Snardius
I ‘da ho.. Interestingly that is how Obama pronounced it at the rally as well.
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:13:45 AM PST
by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: Domandred
Obama's main appeal is that he ain't Hillary.
With a little bit of luck, it might take him most of four years to set up a machine anywhere near as corrupt.
He would probably suffer the same fate as Jimmy Carter. Unfortunately, so would the country.
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:14:19 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: Domandred
Must be all those movie stars on monster ranches living there.....
To: Domandred
Can you answer a question for me? I kept seeing that Obama (D) won Idaho but I never did see which Republican won it. Do Republicans vote on a different day or did I just miss it?
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:27:32 AM PST
by
Spunky
("You have Freedom of Choice, but not the Consequences.")
To: Domandred
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:27:42 AM PST
by
MarkeyD
(Just another country bumpkin looking forward to Fred!)
To: Spunky
Republican primary is in May.
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:28:18 AM PST
by
MarkeyD
(Just another country bumpkin looking forward to Fred!)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Must be all those movie stars on monster ranches living there.....Not that many resident movie stars in Idaho. I think the Democrats in Idaho can caucus in a phone booth...
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:29:58 AM PST
by
Snardius
To: Domandred
The ‘tard who wrote this should have seen the turnout for Alan Keyes here in Coeur d’Alene back in 2000. SRO at NIC.
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:48:57 AM PST
by
Noumenon
(The only thing that prevents liberals from loading us all into cattle cars is the power to do it)
To: Snardius
No, but they do caucus in Sun Valley.
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:50:06 AM PST
by
tomswiftjr
(Remember Pearl Harbor)
To: Domandred
Idaho, Racist Hotbed?
Salt and Potatoes, both white. Coincidence?
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:52:21 AM PST
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: BallyBill
Maybe they don’t even have Salt mines in Idaho. Potatoes though, they are Racist all by themselves.
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:53:25 AM PST
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: Domandred
Given that McCain’s backers the OPEN BORDERs society routinely accuse anybody demanding border security are purist/racist I might seriously consider voting for Obama... to prove them wrong. He is at least an American.
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posted on
02/06/2008 9:59:05 AM PST
by
Just mythoughts
(Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
To: N. Theknow
“Still not any Black contestants for Miss America willing to wear the state banner.”
Idaho has had a black contestant in the Miss America USA pageant. Her name is Sade Aiyeku and she’s of Nigerian-American heritage. She competed in the Miss USA pageant.
http://tricounties.insllc.net/ID-SadeAiyeku2pic..jpg
To: Snardius
"Not that many resident movie stars in Idaho."
Though there is that huge influx of Californians that have moved there in the past few years...!
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posted on
02/06/2008 10:20:41 AM PST
by
JDoutrider
(No 2nd Amendment... Know Tyranny)
To: Domandred
OTOH,racist Massachusetts gave Hillary! a comfortable win yesterday.The irony is just too sweet.
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posted on
02/06/2008 10:27:52 AM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
To: Noumenon
The ‘tard who wrote this should have seen the turnout for Alan Keyes here in Coeur d’Alene back in 2000. SRO at NIC. That's because we Washingtonians crossed the border...:)
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posted on
02/06/2008 10:30:13 AM PST
by
Snardius
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