i don't care about Hispanics or other minorities. What are the black support numbers? McCain +17 with white men, Obama +90 with black men. By the way, why did 90% of blacks vote for Obama, a half a term Senator with no experience and a Muslim name over Hillary Clinton, wife of a President who bent over backwards for them?
Colin Powell is going to switch to a Republican? How would that help him with the black vote?
Why is it that Obama and his supporters have he pushed to be recognized for being the "first black presidential candidate" when, actually, he is 50% white? Why hasn't he stated that he is what he is - the first "bi-racial presidential candidate?"
Could it be that he knew that using his black race would get him more political traction, attention, and a following? He could have accepted his whiteness as much as his black heritage, but no...he proclaims himself black and even makes slurs against his white grandmother.
As much as Obama publically states race should not be an issue, I am sure -- that early in his planning -- he and his supporters knew/felt that being the first black candidate is all that was needed to catapult him into the forefront, combined with playing on the white guilt of liberals. If it was not a matter of race to Obama, and he didn't want that to be emphasized, then he would focus on his bi-racial heritage, not his black relatives, friends, associates, etc. and he would have used the term "bi-racial." That would have been more appropriate - and would be in line with what he proclaims he is - a uniter! But who can unite anything when, in their very life, they are proving that they are separating themselves from 50% of their own heritage?
Excuses, excuses, excuses
Algor lost because of voting machine errors (NOT because he’s a Left-Wing Anti-American socialist radical zealot)
Kerry lost because of the swiftboat ads (NOT because he’s a Left-Wing Anti-American socialist radical zealot)
Obama loses because he’s Black (NOT because he’s a Left-Wing Anti-American socialist radical zealot)
No he's not, it's all he has.
He's not even a real black- his mother is the same color as mine, and I'm white.
If he didn't have his phony racial status he'd just be another John Kerry but without the Purple Hearts.
Now what if a white columnist supporting McCain had written “black voters can’t bring themselves to vote for a candidate who surpasses them by every measure?” That writer would be accused of being a racist. Which is what Mary Mitchell happens to be.
I should have known. This woman is one of the worse non-thinking people on the Times payroll.
I think things got really racist when Paris Hilton kept referring to McCain as that “WHITE-haired dude.”
Let’s see, maybe since Obama has spent his entire adolescence and adult life (same thing in his case) steeped in toxic racialist left-wing politics, by his own choices and actions, and his idea of “reaching out” to other viewpoints is to demand that he be annointed as the ultimate uniter and healer..... when he has never done a single thing in his life worth mentioning to show that he is anything but a left-wing poseur trying now to condescend to all those ‘bitter’ whites clinging to guns and religion.
The problem, Miss Mary, is that enough people are seeing exactly who he is, what he really believes, and what he stands for..... so that he has peaked in the polls and it is downhill from here.
btw, Mary, are the 95%+ of blacks who support Obama racists? Or only those of another skin color who happen to DISAGREE with his politics, and/or who happen to think that he is objectively INEXPERIENCED (indisputable) and DISHONEST (indisputable) about his real beliefs and background and commitments????