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Posted on 02/09/2008 12:43:04 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Heavy black-voter turnout is expected to result in victory for Sen. Barack Obama in today's Louisiana primary election, a factor analysts say makes the state one of the Democrats' best Southern chances in November if the Illinois senator tops the ticket.
Pearson Cross, a professor of political science at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, called Louisiana "neither a red state or a blue state. We"re more of a purple state," noting that the state backed President Clinton in 1992 and 1996 but went for President Bush in 2000 and 2004.
“Really I would say, in terms of a Southern state, we are a real good indication of the two-party strengths across the South," he said. "What we may be is a good indication of the extent to which Obama may be able to make some inroads across the South.”
Although some have argued that Hurricane Katrina, which took a heavy toll on New Orleans' black population, pushed Louisiana into the “red” category, Mr. Cross said that is premature.
“The best guess anybody can make right now is that the Democrats lost about 50,000 reliable voters statewide with Katrina,” he said, a number that he deemed unlikely to affect many statewide races.
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Is the Pope Catholic?
Double duh.
Can’t believe the editor at the Washington Times allowed that headline.
IF Obama was to find himself a Hispanic running mate of some respect he could avoid the whole Dream Ticket thing with Clinton and still take the whole ball game!
Mel
I think it unlikely that LA will vote ‘Rat this November given that they went GOP in 2000 and 2004, tens of thousands of the biggest deadbeats in the State have left since 2004, and they just overwhelmingly elected a conservative Republican Governor.
No foolin'? Why... what happened to Schwarzenegger? ;)
Any other obvious statements out there?
Dude! Quit funnin' wit' me! LA = Louisiana.
Crackheads likely to boost car stereos.
Oops! ;) My Bad, totally. I automatically translated "LA," in my mind, as being "Los Angeles." I'm now wearing the big, floppy 'Tard Shoes, in rightful penance.
Is Obama black?
(Weren’t we almost fooled?)
Rushbo says he is a Halfrican American.
Regards
By most accounts Obama is gray.
Race, Class, and Gender
I suppose this should be no surprise. While the Republican Party is deeply split over ideological issues, the Democratic candidates have no significant ideological differences and instead are splitting the vote based on the left’s holy trinity of race, class, and gender.
That’s what the data from Super Tuesday’s election results seems to show. White women are voting for Hillary Clinton to support a woman. Blacks vote for Barack Obama to support a black man. And the vote is also split on the closest thing America has to a genuine class division: educated voters to Obama, the uneducated to Clinton.
The education difference is explained well by British columnist Gerard Baker below. As for the racial divide, it even extends to Latino and Asian voters. This last group is analyzed in The New Republic. Partly, the Asian tilt toward Clinton is explained by an ideological factor: Asian immigrants tend to be more conservative and buy into Bill Clinton’s old fraud of being a moderate “New Democrat.”
But the article also mentions this factor: “California has a long history of battles over affirmative action, and as Henry Brady, a political scientist at UC Berkeley explained to me, ‘A lot of those fights pitted African Americans against Asians.’” In other words, if California’s top schools were required to accept more under-performing black students, they had to accept fewer high-performing Asian students.
The author concludes that “Obama’s message of a ‘post-racial’ politics is having trouble reaching beyond white and black audiences.” But when has the left every really stood for “post-racial politics”? It is the left that constantly invokes race as a political issue, by promising to divide the spoils of government largesse among various racial and economic pressure groups. But as with Asians versus blacks in college admissions, this pressure-group warfare is a prescription for racial conflict, as each group jostles against the others for a bigger share of government benefits.
In theory and in practice, the left has spent the past few decades insisting that “race, class, and gender” are the fundamental determinants of life and that these divisions are the basic fabric of society. So it’s no surprise when competing Democratic candidates end up dividing the vote along precisely these lines.
Wonderfully summarized!
I’ve been trying to figure out what Obama’s religion is. Anyone know? Did he used to be a Muslim? Is he now, or did he switch to Judaism, Catholicism, Methodism, Buddhism, WhoHa-Ism? Does he now attend church? Where? The question was asked, “how will being a Mormon affect Romney in office”, so how will being (whatever) affect Obama? Is this being discussed in the media?
I hear Cheech Marin is available. They could call the campaign "Up In Smoke: The Sequel."
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