Yesterday, i worked in Kansas City at a pre-season game. Our KC branch was short, so a number of us from STL rode in two rented vans to pick up the slack. My seat mate was a middle aged woman. Inevitably a comment was made about politics and I withdrew because I thought I would be in the minority. Wrong. This woman calmly and straight forwardly evicerated anything Obama, from his upbringing to his wife. It was a rant delivered with ferocity, yet cold calculation. When she was done she went leaned back and said “call ME a racist. I dare you..”
I thought the brief silence was trouble, until two of the black guys we were with, jumped in and said, “gay marriage and anti-blackness is what turned our family off. He only cares about gays and illegals!”
I asked about that and he explained that a lot of black Obama voters were angry at the gay pandering (black voters are not down with THAT struggle), the efforts legalize illegal Hispanics, and the complete “dissing of the mainstream black community, the ones who put him in office!”
He said the community also feels that the illegals are being touted as the new “black”.
The woman then turned to me and with a quick nod of her head to indicate the two guys, said, “the silent majority, you are seeing chick fil a happening on our van..”
My point? I’ll bet none of the polls saying Obama is close to Romney never polled anyone in our van. I felt a little more confidence than I have after that.
On a side note, I was assigned to the Chiefs bench. I picked up an errant pass and tossed it to Stanzi who was warming up in the 3rd quarter.
I thought it was one the coolest things I have done for this company..