Well, well, well!!! It appears that the race problem is not with the Republican party but with the Democrat party if we are to believe the Obama Press, er Associated Press-Yahoo poll released over this past weekend.
According to the poll findings, as many as one-third of those who said that they were Democrats and white said that they could not vote for a black for president. Also according to the poll, many of these white Democrats had a negative adjective to say about blacks.
On the other side, the Republicans, we white Republicans hold many prejudices, but that is not why we would not vote for a black for president. It is more that Republicans would not vote for a Democrat, no matter what his or her race was.
"We still don't like black people," said John Clouse, 57, reflecting the sentiments of his pals gathered at a coffee shop in Somerset, Ohio.
That was a quote in the article. Interestingly, there is no indication that this potential voter was a Democrat or a Republican or an independent.
What this poll shows, if it is to believed, is that the Democrats will have a harder time to convince those that are registered in their party to vote for Sen. Messiah Barack over Sen. John "F--- You" McCain. A finding of the poll is that Sen. Messiah Barack has the allegiance of only 70% of registered Democrats while Sen. "F--- You" McCain has the backing of 85% of registered Republicans.
If that is true, what does it say about the Democrat party?
It says that a party that plays the identity games dies by the identity game.
For the Democrats, the previous primary season exposed that chasm that has bubbled under the surface.
Sure, Sen. Messiah Barack won the Democrat nomination, but had to be helped over the finish line by the votes of the so-called "Superdelegates". It is a very undemocratic way to chose a candidate. And, for Sen. St. Hillary Clinton, it would have been the same end to a bitter game.
Women against men. Whites against blacks. Old against young. Traditionalists against modernists. Liberals against socialists.
That is why Sen. Messiah Barack is having a hard time getting anywhere close to closing the deal. And a serious lack of any leadership and or serious accomplishments is making it much harder than it should be in what should be a Democrat year.
If this poll is anywhere near right, and Sen. Messiah Barack does lose, it will not be the Republicans who have something to answer for. It will be a party that has played identity politics for the last 40 years that will have to answer why the party for the people is nothing more than the party for some people.
2 comments:
we saw this coming didn't we64!!... and an brilliant unintended circumstance of operation chaos. because if the deomocratic primary had ended when the press had wanted it to, we would have never seen the white backlash to obama in places like ohio, w.v., and ky. and if obama did lose the presidential election becuase of the lack of white support, it would have been blamed on the conservative white voters. well thanks to this "exposure" we finally have some cover!!!
Rather than comment on the poll, I'll just say that I am one of those conservatives who would not vote for Obama or Hillary based on their politics. Skin color or sex are WAY down on my list of what's important in a political candidate.
I'd say those attributes aren't even ON my list, but it's possible, given two otherwise identical political candidates, that it could come down to that, but that's just a hypothetical.
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