[1Old Pro]

Key demographics — such as blacks and Hispanics — are reported to be antipathetic to the candidate and difficult to corral.

I've been saying this for weeks. Blacks aren't going to the polls for Kerry the way they did for their Brother Clintoon.

[mrustow]

Key demographics — such as blacks and Hispanics — are reported to be antipathetic to the candidate and difficult to corral.

I've been saying this for weeks. Blacks aren't going to the polls for Kerry the way they did for their Brother Clintoon.

One thing -- and perhaps the only thing -- that Bush II and Clinton share, is the common touch. And that's what it takes to get real voter turnout, especially in a close election.

When lefties were calling Clinton the nation's first black president, I think that was just their way of saying that he had that common touch. It was also an indirect tribute to black racism. As more and more cities with large black populations started voting in black mayors, a large if indeterminate proportion of blacks decided that there should be no more white mayors, and thus that they should not be voting for white candidates. That's what happened in New York; blacks simply refused to recognize that Rudy Giuliani was mayor, just as they had long refused to recognize whites in the roles of social workers, teachers, and police officers. But they liked Clinton, so they essentially said, "We don't even think of you as a white boy."