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i disagree. i think people don't want to be told that they are racist, but that doesn't make them not racist. look at the Rev. Wright freak out. why? because it was an angry black man speaking in front of cheering black people. if you made him and the church white, you wouldn't have nearly the same uproar. there's no image that's quite feared by some white people as that of the angry black man. Obama talks about this in his book. it's why he doesn't get "angry" or hit McCain "hard." it's because he knows that whites in many parts of the country reflexively freak out when blacks raise their voices. |
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Here's some more polling commentary from FiveThirtyEight.com:
Today's Polls, 9/16 Although the national tracking polls are trending upward for Obama, this set of state polling is a strong one for John McCain: Ohio, certainly, is a Lean McCain state now. It has been polled extensively over the past week, and all polls but Quinnipiac show McCain with a lead in the neighborhood of 3-4 points. As we're getting into electoral crunch time, the key dynamic to watch is the performance of the three or four tipping point states like Ohio, Virginia, and Colorado, both relative to one another and relative to the national popular vote estimate. Presently, Ohio is polling slightly behind Obama's national numbers, whereas Colorado is polling a point or so ahead. If this dynamic continues, then Ohio will gradually become less important, placing more emphasis on either Obama's IA/NM/CO parlay, or perhaps Virginia, which is one state where he's had some favorable polling of late. Looking quickly through the rest of the numbers, this set of Rasmussen polling is fairly poor for Obama, although some of that is caused by the fact that Rasmussen just re-weighted its party ID targets, producing a shift of a point or so toward John McCain. (Rasmussen's re-weightings may well be perfectly valid -- my goal is merely to provide context here). Meanwhile, polling in the New York/New Jersey region has shown some bounce for John McCain. It's probably too late for the McCain campaign to devote serious resources to New Jersey, but it might make fo an interesting target if they did. Then again, most of these polls overlapped with 9/11, and it's possible that there's some sort of 9/11 effect in the region. |
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The problem, as I see it, is there may very well be a ceiling that Obama cannot rise above when it comes to public support due to his race. I do not like thinking this, but, if there is a point that he cannot rise above, he may very well have trouble come election day.
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i agree. i think that as Palin continue to lose her new car smell, we're going to get more ads with ever more racial subtext. i do think there's still a lot of racism in the country. not crazy KKK type racism, probably more "racial resentment" is a better way to put it. |
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This has been my concern since day one... Conservatives keep saying "he should be way up in the polls", I think this is one of the factors why he'll never take that overwhelming lead. |
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Matthew Yglesias Rothschilds Against Elitism
Rothschilds Against Elitism Irony truly is dead as Lynn Forester de Rothschild endorses John McCain on anti-elitism grounds: “This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don’t like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.” On an unrelated note, the stakes have rarely been higher in an election for extremely rich people than they are in this one. Barack Obama’s tax proposals don’t raise a ton of new net revenue and, as a consequence, have tended to be viewed as pretty moderate. But one reason they don’t raise all that much net revenue is that he’s offering large tax cuts to the majority of people and those offset the substantial tax hike he’s proposing on the rich. Justin Wolfers has a good chart on this: The difference for middle class taxpayers here is real, but for people making above the national median income (which is to say most people who are working full-time) it tends to be a pretty small difference. But for people earning below the national median the gap is a lot bigger and for extremely high earners the gap is huge. These facts haven’t gotten much play, but if you’re making over $600,000 a year and especially if you’re making over $2.8 million a year you have an extremely strong incentive to back McCain. |
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (September 17, 2008) - She is who we thought she was
Matt, examining Lady de Rothchilds defection to McCain, notes that irony must be truly dead. "Lady" de Rothchilds main reason for not endorsing McCain? Obama is an elitist. More accurately elitism is dead. When a gazillionaire who insists on being IDed as "Lady" can call a black dude from the South Side, whose mother had him as a teenager an elitist, the word has no meaning. |
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So, a wealthy upper class elitist with a surname that readily identifies her as a wealthy upper class elitist, backs McCain.
This can only be good for Obama, frankly. |
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Thankfully Senator Obama has continued to backpedal on his tax policies since the general election campaign started. The article below mentions income tax but he has also moderated on capital gains taxes lately.
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pragmatic flexibility
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