[hal ogen]

Ms. Coulson is the kind of emotion-based voter that should best stay home on election day. Has she apologized to America as yet for election this destructive buffon president? To top it off, with her poor judgement she works at Wall Street.

[raybbr]

Hyphens-are-more-popular-than-ever-before.

[Altura Ct.]

Salena Zito acts as if the right is different in this regard. That the right doesn’t echo the need to ‘reach out’ to blacks, Hispanics etc. Just like the Tea Party reacted when accused of being racist. Or how almost all of the right treats the likes of LaRaza or The Black Caucus et al as legitimate political interest.

What a delusional mindset that embraces the very same thing the left does and then runs around in circles accusing the left of being the ‘real racist’.

[stevem]

then he has a chance to undermine Obama with northern suburbanites and to rout him in a landslide.

Everyone keeps saying this.

It's so early. I think if obama wins the nation is done...over and out. It scares me half to death.

[Verginius Rufus]

Probably the majority of people whom the political scientists put in the "working class" don't think of themselves as belonging to the working class, but as Americans.

It's ironic that a party whose ideology is a blend of Karl Marx and Jean-Jacques Rousseau should have such a small share of the vote of the group they are supposedly championing, the "working class."

[Hotlanta Mike]

[neverdem]

White voters make up a majority of the electoral pie, and white Democrats in the middle- to low-income working class are the soul of that coalition. In 2008, white voters without college degrees made up nearly 40 percent of all voters.

In the 2010 midterm election, when Republicans crushed Democrats up and down the ballot nationally, less than 33 percent of the white working class voted for House Democrats – a record low.

The latest Gallup in-depth poll shows only 43 percent of white 18- to 29-year-olds plan to vote for Obama, down 9 points from the 52 percent backing him in 2008; his support is down 9 points among postgraduate women, too.

BTTT! Thanks for the numbers, Salena! There's so much undo pessimism on this forum these days.

[lentulusgracchus]

(Article) From his mini-amnesty pitch to Hispanics, his support of gay marriage and his “identity” comments on the death of a black youth, to his turning contraception into a wedge issue, President Obama is shaping his electoral path to victory with identity politics.

If Hillary were president and nobody had heard of Obozo, she would be doing the identical thing with this bad economy.

Remember, the Klintonx taught Barry this crap, not the other way around.

If northern suburbanites and young professionals turn, then he is doomed to a huge loss. And persuadable voters such as Coulson are looking for a compelling reason to abandon him; divisive rhetoric is turning them off_*, and economics is only half the story.

The writer is a northern, urban-burban neo-con desperate for a path to the White House for a non-Southern, non-conservative candidate that does not include the white South -- whose people she despises even more than she does Obama's Marxism-Leninism or race politics.

You let the cat out of the bag, sweetie.

_* This is code for conservative campaign themes and memetically conservative arguments, which include Obama's credentials and hidden background, Obama's associations (Van Jones, Eric Holder, Ayers and Dohrn, Shirley Sherrod, Man's Country, the Muslim Brotherhood), Obama's sharp-elbow politics, and his ideologically hidebound and racist policies. Good luck with that -- "breaking the box" (the "Finkelstein box") almost always means a 'Rat victory. You want to "break the box" -- and win with your Yacht-Clubber anyway! Like I said, good luck with that.

[lentulusgracchus]

Guys - another neocon Romneybot pipe dream: winning without the moral blot of whitebread, hominy-grits conservatism.

The way things are going, I'm thinking Sarah Palin might just walk into that convention hall and come out with the nomination.