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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: TARADO96 who wrote (21369)5/14/2008 12:25:12 AM
From: tejek   of 149317
 
I took some flak from some of our most esteemed older posters for saying this, but I must repeat: racist old white voters must die before you see real improvement in race relations. It is a cold hard fact, but it is the truth.

Obama does not have a problem attracting 40-45% of young working white voters. It is the 60+ white voters that are resisting the change.

I'll tell you.....if there is a huge mistake that the Obama campaign has made.....not Obama misspeaking or the whole Wright issue.....but a campaign mistake, it was alienating the over 60 crowd when Obama first started out. If you remember, the Obama campaign suggested that the over 60 crowd wouldn't get him. I was really surprised by their position even as I understood the intent was to energize the younger crowd. I believe that may have pushed some people in their 60s into the Clinton camp.

Having said that, the reality has been during this campaign that there have been guys in their twenties proclaiming on national television that they would never vote for a black man, and I have seen people in their 60s working fervently for Obama.

Bottom line: we know that there is a segment of the older, white, blue color population that currently is resistent to Obama. However, I truly believe people can change and we need not to write them off. FWIW.
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