Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (368537)	1/27/2008 3:18:48 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579810

I'm fairly cynical. But Obama's acceptance speech this evening really moved me. As Kennedy moved me. I hope to God he wins the nomination. Obama is your third party candidate. Embrace him and support him. We have a shot at turning this country on its ear. Tonite I was listening to the pol. analysts talk while I was getting dressed to go out. If I heard them correctly, Obama got 27% of the white vote....at first I heard 20%....then later the higher number. If I am correct, the white vote split nearly 30-40-30....meaning the Old South is dead. In addition, and catch this one, white males broke for Obama....not Edwards, not Clinton. In addition, he got 80% of the black vote.....so much for Bill Clinton being the 'first black president'. Finally, 6 out of 10 voters said that they were effected by Bill Clinton's BS. Of that group, roughly 60% went for Obama and 40% for Clinton. It doesn't look to me like Bill is that big an asset. I am jazzed! I did errands this afternoon and then went to the gym. I almost turned around when I saw nearly all the TVs at the gym turned on to the SC returns. I expected to see Obama winning by maybe 2 percentage points. I was floored when I saw it was 51% to 30%. I thought to myself....dang! that won't hold. And it didn't.........it got better!! <g> Even the political analysts were jazzed....at least for a while. And then it started.....SC has a big black population....higher percentage than most other states; people are more confident of Hillary; Obama is too different....his campaign will never work....bla bla bla! But then, Joe Scarborough, the conservative pundit, said that after every primary election his blackberry gets a ton of messages from his conservative friends saying that Obama is the bomb! He he..... And can you believe Caroline Kennedy endorsed Obama tonite. Its frigging audacious! I would never have thought it.......of all the Kennedys, she's perfect......she's like one level below sainthood. She has none of the Kennedy baggage and everything that is good about the name. I swear....after every primary, some major name endorses Obama.....if I were a conspiracy theorist, I would think it was being staged. ;-) Now Oprah needs to get back on the road for Super Tuesday!