Whites and Wal-Mart women give John McCain hope

timesonline.co.uk ^ | 11/2/08 | Tony Allen-Mills

[melt]

They have been sprouting across the front lawns of western Pennsylvania, just enough of them among the Hallowe’en ghouls and zombie decorations to give John McCain the ghost of a chance.

The signs read, “Another Democrat for McCain”. They are to be found at the homes of women like Eileen Kettelberg, a factory worker who has been a Democrat all her life but will not vote for Barack Obama because she believes he insulted Hillary Clinton – and, by extension, all Democratic women – by failing to pick her as his running mate.

There is another one outside Joyce Wiczorek’s home in Franklin. “I just don’t feel I know who Obama is,” the 57-year-old former teacher said last week. “With McCain and Sarah Palin, at least you know who you’re getting.”

There are other reasons why blue-collar Pennsylvania Democrats are considering a Republican vote this year. Some cite Obama’s liberal views on abortion and perceived antipathy to gun-owners. Others think that McCain, a Vietnam veteran, cares more about their sons and daughters who are serving in Iraq. Many are worried by McCain’s claims that Obama is a closet socialist who is planning to “punish the successful”.

Both Democratic and Republican officials suspect that at least some of these reasons are camouflage for racism. “There are still some people who have trouble voting for a person who is part African-American,” said Tom Balya, commissioner of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County, which is expected to vote for McCain even though 50,000 more Democrats are registered as voters there than Republicans.

[melt]

Whites and Wal-Mart women are just being "selfish"...

[goldstategop]

Jack Murtha has called them "redneck racists." Who, it needs to be added, believe in God, guns and babies.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[saganite]

Wal Mart women. Soon to join NASCAR dads as the most hated phrase in the US among liberals and the media elite.

[Fred]

What is with the silly link to walmart women. Only a moron would not shop there or some effete metro from wallstreet.

[GoLightly]

Has to be due to racism, because it couldn’t possibly be due to Zero’s sexism.

[Sybeck1]

No one ever questions why 200% of blacks are voting for the biracial guy.......

[combat_boots]

The Biden Chronicles: Anatomy Of The Village Blowhard!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_f84qX3pBg

[Sybeck1]

State Total Black Total Percent
Alabama
4,486,508
*1,308,232
29.2 %

Alaska
643,786
21,787
3.4 %

Arizona
5,456,453
158,873
3.0 %

Arkansas
2,710,079
418,950
15.5 %

California
35,116,033
*2,337,935
6.7 %

Colorado
4,506,542
165,063
3.7 %

Connecticut
3,460,503
309,843
9.0 %

Delaware
807,385
160,866
20.0 %

District of Columbia 570,898
343,213
60.1 %

Florida
16,713,149
2,335,505
14.0 %

Georgia
8,560,310
2,349,542
27.5 %

Hawaii
1,244,898
22,003
1.8 %

Idaho
1,341,131
5,456
0.4 %

Illinois
12,600,620
1,876,875
15.0 %

Indiana
6,159,068
510,034
8.3 %

Iowa
2,936,760
61,853
2.1 %

Kansas
2,715,884
154,198
5.7 %

Kentucky
4,092,891
295,994
7.2 %

Louisiana
4,482,646
1,451,944
32.4 %

Maine
1,294,464
6,760
0.5 %

Maryland
5,458,137
1,477,412
27.1 %

Massachusetts
6,427,801
343,454
5.3 %

Michigan
10,050,446
1,412,742
14.1 %

Minnesota
5,019,720
171,731
3.4 %

Mississippi
2,871,782
1,033,809
36.0 %

Missouri
5,672,579
629,391
11.1 %

Montana
909,453
2,692
0.3 %

Nebraska
1,729,180
68,541
4.0 %

Nevada
2,173,491
135,477
6.2 %

New Hampshire
1,275,056
9,035
0.7 %

New Jersey
8,590,300
1,141,821
13.3 %

New Mexico
1,855,059
34,343
1.9 %

New York
19,157,532
3,014,385
15.7 %

North Carolina
8,320,146
1,737,545
20.0 %

North Dakota
634,110
3,916
0.6 %

Ohio
11,421,267
1,301,307
11.4 %

Oklahoma
3,493,714
260,968
7.5 %

Oregon
3,521,515
55,662
1.6 %

Pennsylvania
12,335,091
1,224,612
9.9 %

Rhode Island
1,069,725
46,908
4.4 %

South Carolina
4,107,183
1,185,216
28.9 %

South Dakota
761,063
4,685
0.6 %

Tennessee
5,797,289
932,809
16.1 %

Texas
21,779,893
2,404,566
11.0 %

Utah
2,316,256
17,657
0.8 %

Vermont
616,592
3,063
0.5 %

Virginia
7,293,542
1,390,293
19.1 %

Washington
6,068,996
190,267
3.1 %

West Virginia
1,801,873
57,232
3.2 %

Wisconsin
5,441,196
304,460
5.6 %

Wyoming
498,703
3,722
0.8 %

Already in Barry’s column?

[T Lady]

Did you get a load of the responses to the article?! One of those nut jobs had the audacity to say McCain-Palin supporters are “neo nazis”.

[I_Like_Spam]

Obama’s “percieved antipathy to gun owners”????

That’s quite an understatement.

[GaryLee1990]

My father-in-law is a democrat from Ohio. He voted early and cast his vote for McCain. First time he voted Republican. I told him that hell must have frozen over. :)

RightWingIt.com

[melt]

Recently, it seems that there are larger numbers of whites stategically placed for the TV camera behind Obama at his rallies--- and fewer blacks & other ethnicities.

I bet Obama's internal polls show that he's lost "Average Joes"--- BIG TIME.

[LucyT]

“There are still some people who have trouble voting for a person who is part African-American,”said Tom Balya, commissioner of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County

No. You're wrong, Tom Balya. The USA is the most color-blind country on the planet. Stop trying to lay white-black guilt on us.

Alot of people don't want to vote for a socialist/communist who can't tell us where he was born, nor when, nor who was his father.

[Nathan Zachary]

Strange story.

I guess Marxist media is trying to cover up all their bias for Obama, which didn’t translate into the Obama votes they hoped for, and is now trying to explain why McCain is heading towards a landslide victory.

Last minute change of heart from Malmart women, yea, that’s it.

[T Lady]

'Already in Barry’s column?'

Not this Black person...

I voted for the Maverick & The Lady!

[Disambiguator]

Has to be due to racism, because it couldn’t possibly be due to Zero’s sexism.

Or his Marxism/Communism. Or the Fascism of his supporters. This election is all about the isms.

[chickpundit]

Yep, I saw those crazy comments. I believe the poster actually referred to McCain supporters as “meo nazis”, lol.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Oh noes....the most 'hated' group in America come November 5 won't be WalMart women or NASCAR dads...nope. It shall be Pennsylvanians. PA going from blue to red will either put (or greatly help to put) JohnnyMc over the EC threshold. Thanks to Jack Murtha...whites in PA will be the 'flashpoint' of racism in America. We aren't/weren't smart enough to pick up 0bama's socialism...no...credit will be given for that. We are just racist rednecks. Forget the Terrible Towels at Steeler games...per the media, we should be waving white sheets and hoods.

(PaMom channelling her inner Joe Biden)...'Mark my words, it won't be 6 hours after the polls close that PA isn't 'blamed.'

[gusopol3]

Thank God for England’s free press , once again. This kind of news story gets the spike in American news rooms.

[Disambiguator]

Idaho
1,341,131
5,456
0.4 %

I'm expecting widespread rioting in Boise.

/s

[T Lady]

'Yep, I saw those crazy comments. I believe the poster actually referred to McCain supporters as “meo nazis”, lol.'

Yet another reason the Federal Government needs to get out of the Education business.

[saganite]

whites in PA will be the ‘flashpoint’ of racism in America.

And to think R.E. Lee, late of the CSA got his butt whipped in Pa which turned the tide of the CW and resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation. Irony.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I am in Westmoreland County...and Balya should really know better. I guess he just wanted into the ‘fray.’ Believe me...his little ‘quote’ will be remembered. Big time.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

To think that Republicans in PA ran Lynn Swann for Governor here (last cycle gub. cycle). The Rs here in PA are ineffectual at best...but Lynn is an awesome candidate (he was just poorly managed...and came up against Rendell’s machine in Philly...you know...the machine that brings the dead back to life for General Elections!)

[CedarDave]

Both Democratic and Republican officials suspect that at least some of these reasons are camouflage for racism. “There are still some people who have trouble voting for a person who is part African-American,” said Tom Balya, commissioner of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County, which is expected to vote for McCain even though 50,000 more Democrats are registered as voters there than Republicans.

And there are whites voting for Obama out of liberal "guilt", too. They do not look at his background, promises, or policies but vote for him just because he is "black." Blacks themselves I can see voting out of emotion and pride, but for white liberals to assuage themselves of their guilt for something their ancestors were responsible for 200 hundred years ago makes no sense. But, liberals being liberals, its all about emotion not intelligence.

[GoLightly]

Or his Marxism/Communism. Or the Fascism of his supporters. This election is all about the isms.

I'll take that ism & raise you a patriot-ism!

[WestSylvanian]

I will bet anything this commissioner is a Democrat supporting Obama. Westmoreland County is heavily Democratic; I used to live there so I know. This creep is slandering any Democrat or Republican in western PA who has decided not to vote for Obama. This is the same slander that Murtha is peddling.

This entire article is a disgusting example of the elite media’s bias against blue collar voters and small town, western Pennsylvanians. I’m getting sick of the smear against hard-working, church-going, freedom-loving Americans who defend gun rights, are deeply patriotic, and are the kind of people making up the American armed forces.

[paudio]

Both Democratic and Republican officials suspect that at least some of these reasons are camouflage for racism. “There are still some people who have trouble voting for a person who is part African-American,”

Time to change back my tagline.

[who knows what evil?]

I’d be willing to bet there are plenty of black Americans, including small business owners, who won’t vote for Obama because they don’t want to pay oppressive tax rates any more than the rest of us.

[Tanniker Smith]

Wal Mart women. Soon to join NASCAR dads as the most hated phrase in the US among liberals and the media elite.

And with my wife, the liberal.

my old sig: "I didn't know she was a Liberal when I married her."

[Nachoman]

World’s shortest riot. Ever.

[GoLightly]

I bet Obama's internal polls show that he's lost "Average Joes"--- BIG TIME.

You could be right. His net minions have been trying to belittle good, hardworking Americans. For example, Tito was called a token.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Bump for morning coffee. I just LOVE being stereotyped. *SPIT*

[BossLady]

You might want to take a looksee at this video -

http://www.viddler.com/explore/ATLAHWorldwide/videos/27/

The Rev. is passionate...that is for sure ;)

[Nathan Zachary]

"There are still some people who have trouble voting for a person who is part African-American,”said Tom Balya, commissioner of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County"

Nothing Ticks me off more than ignorant statements like that. Only race baiters and American hating, Socialist foreigners say such retarded things, and of course white haters like Obama and his pal Rev. Wright.

As you said, WHITE USA is largely color blind, except for the reverse racism propagated by the elected members of the Democrat party, and black and other minority colors, who strangely? enough, are those who support those elected members of the Democrat party.

It is not the color of a man's skin that causes me to be suspicious and distrustful of someone, it is the color of their soul.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Westmoreland County is either 50/50 (in term party registration right now) or closing in on 60/40 Republican. Alot of upscale housing (McMansions). It also has gone 'red' in both GWB cycles. We are more 'T' of PA now, than being suburban Pittsburgh.

And Balya should really have known better.

[OpusatFR]

Those who are pushing the concepts in the article expose themselves.

This time it’s a blanket condemnation against a stereotypical white demographic.

It’s called prejudice and it’s out in the open in the black community.

[peeps36]

How is Berry Obama leading in all the polls if he doesn't have the support of so many democrats? I really believe the media is putting out fraudulent polls to discourage people from voting for Mccain. I'm going to predict that Mccain wins this election 60% to 40% and the republicans regain seats they lost in the last election.

[denydenydeny]

Both Democratic and Republican officials suspect that at least some of these reasons are camouflage for racism. “There are still some people who have trouble voting for a person who is part African-American,” said Tom Balya, commissioner of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County,

When Lynn Swann was running, you could couldn't get a public official to say this to save their life. It was all, Swann's elitist Republican message couldn't connect with blue-collar Pennsylvania etc.etc. etc.

Now, "racism" is the first ****ing thing out of their mouths.

I have to say, if they are rationalizing in advance, it gives me hope for the election.

[spacejunkie01]

thank you VERY much for posting the % of blacks per state. I was just asking for that on some thread.

I find it comforting that the states with the highest percentage of blacks are clearly in the red column (MS, SC, GA, etc). The states we’re ‘fighting over’ have low black populations comparatively speaking. So the black vote isn’t going to have much bearing on the outcome to me.

thoughts?

[spacejunkie01]

awesome T Lady!! God and country sister!!

[zwerni]

exactly what i was thinking.

but i must say, there sure is alot of white guilt out there in those blue liberal states.

[VOA]

Whites and Wal-Mart women give John McCain hope

Seeing how well Wal-Mart stock has endured the current economic
turmoil...
they are afraid that an Obama administration might be a stake through
the heart of Wal-Mart.

(I don't remember the exact metric, but I think I heard Wal-Mart was
the best-performing Dow Index component for this bloody month
of October.)

[narses]

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[Figment]

If these folks want to talk about racism, they need to talk about the racists in their own party.I don’t know any Republicans changing their vote because Bambi is black. I know a lot of dims who say it out loud

[SuziQ]

Both Democratic and Republican officials suspect that at least some of these reasons are camouflage for racism. “There are still some people who have trouble voting for a person who is part African-American,” said Tom Balya, commissioner of Pennsylvania’s Westmoreland County, which is expected to vote for McCain even though 50,000 more Democrats are registered as voters there than Republicans.

I'm sure they'll use that excuse when Obama loses. How then, will they explain it when the Republicans have their first black Presidential candidate, and if he or she is a conservative, gets all those same votes McCain will be getting this year? Will those former McCain voters still be racists because they didn't vote for the LIBERAL black candidate?