He also goes on to say that the Clintons are manipulating this ‘trend’. It’s a pretty interesting article, but I hate this type of casting. It’s like “profiling” profiling… if you catch my meaning. I was a bit disappointed with the whole Pennsylvania scenario from the start, but it’s brought with it a wider recognition of what we are up against in this country as far as racism goes.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m remaining colorblind - I never really had a choice in that matter…

Peace,
=RD=

Indeed, of that fifteen percent, I still say you work on them. If you put a clear contrast between what McCain means for this country, and what Obama means for this country, what it will mean in regards to improving the economy, and in establishing a saner, safer, and more effective foreign policy, you may be surprised; some of those folks very well may get over their racial reservations and cast their vote for the black guy.

But really, what it boils down to is what we have seen in this primary. Obama shouldn’t have won; Hillary had the party support, she had the fundraising apparatus, she had the name recognition. By all rights, Obama should have been knocked out on Super Tuesday.

Why wasn’t he? Why is he the presumptive nominee? Because he looked at the landscape and he plotted out a course that worked for him. He employed a fifty (or forty-eight if you prefer) state strategy that allowed him to bulid up delegates where Hillary wasn’t looking, and now we have a guy who is essentially untouchable by the metric that matters; delegates.

I’m pretty sure he’s going to do something similar come time of the General Election. He’s going to look at the landscape and he’s going to plot out a course to victory and it may confuse and baffle a lot of long time pundits who won’t understand why he’s putting so many resources from Kansas to Montana when that’s clearly Republican territory.

But that’s what’s going to happen. Also, he’s going to unleash upon the electorate a grassroots/netroots effort the likes of which we’ve never seen before, and that’s a key point too. You look at the percentage of eligable voters who actually do vote, and it’s pretty low. One of the key strategy points that I think the Obama campaign should and probably will employ is to really bump that number up, energizing new swaths of voters that may cancel out the racist vote.

So I’m not worried. I do see it as a challenge, but that’s fine, nothing worth having is easy. And if we lose, we lose, but we lose on our terms, and we send a clear message that we’re done playing Republican lite games, that we’re going to challenge them on every issue with alternative ideas, better ideas, and whichever candidate embodies that is the candidate that’s going to be our nominee from here on in.

And we’ll continue to lose those battles, but that, my friends, is what we call a “good death”. But to be frank, I don’t think our good death is coming this November.

Tas rightly pointed out his fear that Obama could not win over the Fiscal Democrats I talked about specifically because he knows there is an underlying race issue. I personally believe we can still win but it will take a change in the electoral map that I am not convinced can happen. Obama will need to redraw the red/blue state map drastically in order to make the electoral vote math work. Particularly if he does not win either PA or OH in the general. Something that I am begrudgingly coming to believe.

These polling numbers that show Hillary voters who, if faced with an Obama candidacy, will vote for McCain are real. They are not people who are being hyperbolic but rather expressing their deep racism. To them, it is better to vote for the old white guy than the black guy.