Obambi is a racist SOB, and the heartland grasps this They know he considers them crackers, and will take everything they have and give it to members of his own race. The Dems just don’t know how visceral this is to most people.
They can't be the only Dems with brains.
“When the Good-Old-Boys network stole the nomination from the First Woman President, how did that make you FEEL?”
Not surprising at all. The upper crust Democrats are finally getting a taste of their own affirmative action programs. After many Democratic politicians have climbed up the ladder over decades, carrying water for the party, endorsing their predecessors, taking one for Clinton, etc., when it came their turn—and here I’m speaking of those who declared candidacies since 2004, they were expected to let a woman cut in line ahead of them, and then a young, inexperienced black man do the same. Why? Solely because they were a (Clinton) woman and a black man. This wasn’t supposed to happen to the anointed who are used to dictating such policies for their lessers while exempting themselves. Of course they and their acolytes resent it.
I think you may be right as I was showing a African-American who I work with and have for over 20 years the New Yorker cartoon. His coment to me was what book would he use to be take the oath of office. I played dumb and let him answer the question for me.
He said the Koran. Now this is from a hard working blue collar guy who has a wife at the Social Security administration office and is a life long democrat.
He also mentioned the issue of the flag pin. But I guess this should not surprise me as he works with a Hispanic guy who was 15 years in the Army and they together are very level headed guys. Makes me proud that they work for me.
My liberal friend is coming to visit next weekend. He’s voting for McCain and he’s never voted for a Republican before.
John McCain is the Democrat most Democrats will vote for this year.
There's even a term (and a Wikipedia page) for it: the Bradley effect, after Tom Bradley's narrow loss to George Deukmejian. Pre-election and even exit polls indicated Bradley would win, but the final tally went otherwise. There are other examples at the above URL.
There are exceptions, but the difference between polls and actual election results have typically been about 10%. So, if polls show Obama with a 7% lead, he may actually be 3% behind.
That’s definitely a story I can relate to. I have many family members who are lifelong Dems. Granted, they’re all conservative, southern state Dems, but still all voted against Bush twice yet none are voting for Obama. In fact, they can’t stand him. This includes my grandparents who have never voted Republican in their 80+ years of life but may this time around (though I suspect they’ll go 3rd party).