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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (112210)3/15/2008 8:47:32 AM
From: Knighty Tin  Read Replies (3) of 132070
 
Obama is where he is, positively, because he won Iowa, where a full 1% of the electorate is African American and 92% are non-hispanic white. That earned him the label of serious front runner, which his organizational, speaking and money raising skills have parlayed into winning or holding close in other states. Being black has never helped any other candidate to become front runner and it is certainly an impediment for Obama. Everyone seems to forget the early polls where Hillary led among African Americans and Obama was not considered "black enough." I remember one black woman on tv who said that Obama was not African American because of his melting pot background and that blacks shouldn't back him.

Hillary is where she is because she is bright and determined, has a long organizational history and is the wife of a popular former President. The fact that she gives as good as she gets with misogynist right wing critics has also made her popular with Democrats, but means her presence on the ballot rallies the knuckle draggers to the polls to defeat her at any cost. It also helped that Rudy Giuliani got cancer and whorehouse fever before their senate race. (Must be something in the water in New York) Being a strong woman has hurt her with white males and conservative Democrats.

A white male with Hillary's resume would have locked up the race by now. A white male with Obama's resume would have locked up the race by now. The only reason McCain has any chance whatsover is because Hillary is a woman and Obama is black.
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