Unconventional take from Craig Crawford on who’s responsible for injecting race into Dem primaries. Ping to Today show list.
I think he’s right. As soon as Hillary won New Hampshire, all the pundits and pollsters were scrambling to figure out how they coulf have missed the outcome by such a wide margin (Polls showed Obama 13 Points ahead and Hillary won by 3). Right away they started floating the theory that people were not telling the pollsters the truth because they didn’t want to say they wouldn’t vote for the black guy. This theory continued to gain legs and they equated it to an election in California back in the 80’s when Tom Bradley a Black LA Mayor was ahead in the polls by a wide margin for Governor on election day, but he lost to a white man by 1%. At that time, the pollsters adopted “The Bradley Theory” that whites didn’t want to appear racist, so they lied to pollsters. This “Bradley Theory” was repeated by every cable pundit and pollster over and over to provide cover for the big difference between thepols and the NH Dem. outcome. The media continued to exploit the racial vote in NV which showed heavily black for Obama and heavily white for Clinton, Thus, Crawford has it right. It wasn’t the Clinton or Obama campaigns that exploited the racial card, it was the media which wants to control events.
Craig Crawford is a Clinton suck butt. He is also a smarmy, oleaginous, unctuous, smirking sneering elitist “Clymer”
Deja Vu from that racist, Rush. /s “the media has been very desirous of a black quarterback to do well”.
The whole dem party is race based. The GOP is based on “what you do” rather than what race you are. Craig is hitting a valid point but missing the whole anvil surface. Keep on trying, Craig, it’s just one more cow away.
I cant believe everyone is missing the boat on this.
It’s huge, it’s right there out in the open, and everyone is missing it.
This has nothing to do with the Clintons and the Primary, and everything to do with the GOP and the General.
The media is calibrating how the GOP can handle Obama in the general. They’re setting the ground rules now, and establishing the ‘racist resistance to positive change’ theme that is going to drive all reporting of a General with Obama in it.
Pay attention. Nothing Bill has said is remotely racist. ‘Fairy Tale’ clearly means: ‘Pie-in-sky idealism that is completely unworkable if Obama wins the Presidency. Dont fall for it’. This the press converts into a racist statement, and it has resonance and legs.
If they can do that to Bill ‘I feel your pain’ Clinton and his wife, who are in point of fact more popular with African Americans than Obama, imagine the hay they can and will make out of any and all criticism of Obama by the GOP.
If Obama does secure the DEM nomination, I have no idea how the GOP gets around this. Any and all criticism, even at the policy level (Which ‘Fairy Tale’ kinda was, metaphorically), will be immediately analyzed by the press from a racial perspective.
That’s the calibration going on right now.