When Obama loses, will it be blamed on “angry white men”?

Posted on August 6th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Political Correctness, Politics.

I can’t help but wonder what the heck the excuse is going to be when Barack Obama loses this election. First he just barely beat Hillary Clinton, a woman that by most accounts is unelectable. Why?  A lot of people just don’t find her likeable. So it was a major surprise when Obama just managed to eek out a victory over the shrewish former first lady. Now pundits are looking at Obama’s polling numbers and they’re wondering why he seems to be bogged down and unable to move the electorate.  Here’s an article at The Politico that looks at this issue.

Obama remains ahead, depending on the national poll, by low to high single digits. The Gallup Poll Daily tracking survey, which randomly interviews at least 1,000 voters each day, has recently found that Obama leads by 3 to 4 percentage points.

In the first full week of the general election, June 9-15, Obama led by between 2 and 7 percentage points. Just short of two months later, registered voters have not significantly shifted their views, as Gallup finds public opinion still fluctuating between roughly the same margins.

“What’s remarkable this summer is the stability of this race,” Gallup’s director Frank Newport said. “In a broad sense, it is similar to previous elections.”

Uh oh, who could be to blame for this?  Which racial/gender group isn’t going along with the plan?  The article looks at that too:

If there is a primary explanation as to why the race has remained close this summer, it is that Obama has failed to make gains overall with white voters, who still cast about three in four ballots on Election Day. 

As Gore did in 2000, Obama nearly splits white women and loses white men by a large margin, according to an aggregate of polling in June and July 2008, and 2000 polling by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press.

Depending upon the week in June or July, by Gallup’s measure, Obama has roughly fluctuated between splitting or, at worst, trailing by about five percent with white women. In that same period, Obama has only won between 34 percent and 37 percent of white men.

In general — and with men in particular — Pew’s data shows that Obama’s gains with young whites compared to Gore in 2000 are offset by a weakness with older whites.

Obama also seems to have hit a ceiling with Hispanics. Latino support fluctuates between 57 percent, by the latest weekly measure, to 68 percent the week before — roughly the margin of Hispanic support that has marked the entire summer, by Gallup’s measure.

What all this suggests is a general election that is much tighter than many analysts predicted and defined by far more stubborn levels of support.

Translation, the only group that Obama isn’t leading with… white guys, are going to bring down this house of cards that is his run for the presidency.  What will the supporters have to say?  Will we have to hear that America just wasn’t ready?  Will we have to be lectured as to how it is that “the man” continues to engage in his nefarious deeds?  Bob Herbert with the New York Times actually went so far as to imply that the McCain campaign intentionally placed Berlin’s Victory Tower in a campaign ad as a means to subliminally imply that Obama was coming for the white women.  WHAT?  I mean if a stupid ad that features A PLACE BARACK SPOKE AT IN BERLIN is looked on as some kind of funky sexual message by a supposedly learned man like Bob Herbert, what are the average folks on the street going to say when Barack goes down in flames?

Frankly, I am sick of all of the scapegoating.  Could it be that people are actually looking at McCain’s stances on energy, Iraq and the world in general and finding them to be sensible?  The threat of more oil entering the market is a substantial means by which to apply pressure to the price, even in the short term.  I can’t help but notice that Barack has suddenly amended his stance on offshore drilling!  Could it conversely be that people look at ideas like “inflating tires” (as a means to combat high oil prices) as NAIVE and indicative of the lack of insight that Barack has when it comes to this situation?  Will he bring similarly naive suggestions to the table when facing down threats like Russia deploying nukes in Cuba, or Iran obtaining them?

I really am beginning to believe that Barack Obama could lose this thing.  Will the Democrats and Obama’s supporters accept that they chose poorly during the primary and put up a feel good candidate that is also an empty suit?  Or will they simply chalk it up to white people and racism?  Sadly, I think that Obama’s campaign has been levying the racist charge since the beginning.  From Michelle Obama’s declaration that Bill Clinton’s use of the term “fairy tale” was a racist slight against her husband and his chances of being elected because he is black, to the recent quips about not looking like former presidents that appear on our currency it has become apparent.  The Obama campaign is ready and willing to make their defeat a conspiracy of race rather than a confidence vote where it concerns the candidate.  Unfortunately, folks like Bob Herbert and others in the mainstream media seeing a potential for defeat seem all too ready to take hold of the notion that this is all about race.  Talk about steering the election away from the issues.  Funny, that’s exactly the kind of allegations they levy against the McCain camp for even daring to suggest that Barack Obama has inserted race into this process from the get-go.

Obama is not qualified to be President of the United States… but sadly that will likely be deemed as irrelevant where it concerns his defeat.  While unanimous black support for Obama is declared anything but racist, white support in the range of 60% for McCain is… go figure.  Face it libs, you put up a candidate in 2008 that is the equivalent of the “Pet Rock”, a fad that is quick losing his luster.  I hope you’ll all be brave enough to deal with that reality when you’re nursing a hangover in early November.

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