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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (411)	12/17/2006 6:51:46 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 149317

Trust me, race will become the #1 issue if Obama is nominated. Just as being a woman will if Hillary is picked. This is precisely why neither one of them should be nominated, and neither of them can win in the end, unless McCain or whomever really blew it somehow. As for positive campaigns and new voters, that would be great if not for the race issue. But Obama can bring out new voters both as a VP candidate and as a campaigner for the nominee. Again, this is not my own racism, it's my knowledge of the people in traditional rural swing districts, almost all white, and mainly trusting of someone like McCain, regardless of his position on Iraq. Those are districts you need to doi well in to win the key swing states. Also, if our country has changed so much, how do you explain one sleazy racist ad knocking Harold Ford down 8% in one day? And no, Harold Ford isn't that different from Obama. Both are very good candidates, handsome and reassuring, they both go to church and Ford is more conservative. But Ford lost to a lesser candidate on the racial fears alone. Granted it was Tennessee, but Ohio and Missouri aren't exactly Cook County.