President McCain

By Ron Beasley

The polls have shifted once again in Barack Obama's direction and there is no way in hell that a Republican much less a dottering old fool and knowledge less beauty queen should be able to win in November. That said I still think that John McCain is an odds on favorite to be the 44th president.  The race should not even be close but it is.  The reason is simple - Obama is black.  I was going to do this post before I saw this:

Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama

Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them "lazy," "violent," responsible for their own troubles.

The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests that the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004 — about two and one-half percentage points.

Certainly, Republican John McCain has his own obstacles: He's an ally of an unpopular president and would be the nation's oldest first-term president. But Obama faces this: 40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents.

Yes I know this from AP and Republican hack Ron Fournier but I think it's probably pretty accurate.  The election results will more than ever depend on the youth vote - people under 40 or 50.  They don't share the bigotry of their parents.  I still think that many of the younger voters are not showing up in the polls because so many of them have only cell phones but historically they have not been as likely to show up to cast a ballot either.  It is also possible that John McCain and Sarah Palin will demonstrate that they are so unfit for office that prejudice can be overcome or that many simply won't vote at all.

Update

Anderson makes a good point in the comments section:

Think of this as yet another explication of the brewing plans for stealing the election.

The writing is on the wall, the charge: voting while Democrat:

-- Michigan foreclosures wielded by state GOP as a tool of voter disenfranchisement.

-- 600,000 in Ohio face pending purge, "disproportionately voters of color and young voters." based on voter caging.

-- fraudulent absentee ballots sent to Democratic voters by the McCain campaign,

-- Jewish voters targeted in two states, smearing Obama as having ties to the PLO

-- Restrictive Voter ID laws, designed to disenfranchise targeted Dem demographics. Indiana's new, Supreme Court blessed, law is expected to hit some 143,000 likely Dem voters.

-- Phony RNC mailings in Virginia, like those used in Florida 2000, to justify purges and poll challenges.

-- With newly tightened ID laws, Florida named "most hostile state in the nation to new voters."

And even today, votes are being "lost" by electronic voting machines:

-- 100,000 votes disappear in CA primary

-- 16,00 votes disappear in a FA primary in Palm Beach county on Sequoia machines.

-- 3500 votes disappear in FA primary in Sarasota county; Diebold machines.

Diebold itself admits that their own tabulator software doesn't count votes correctly.

Beware people. This is all being ignored in the mainstream in favour of narratives that have little to do with the ground game currently being laid by the GOP. They are smoke and mirrors, just like the mythical "values voters" story used by the media to "explain" Bush's hacked and jacked win in Ohio. Those values voters never existed, but they provided the cover story.

This would explain Ron Fournier's involvement.

 

Comments

[karl]

I'm still skeptical about racism making the difference in this election. Some reliable statistical data is required for me to ignore what I've seen and heard over the course of my 52 years.

I grew up with racist neighbors, schoolmates and even friends; in general, they made the usual distinctions between the "good" members of any particular minority and the "others." A time went on and they met a more representative sample of non-white humanity some of their racism softened from hatred or disgust to disappointment ("why can't they all be like Mr. Jones?") and even empathy. Many people who still feel discomfort with, and disapproval of, non-whites in general have become capable of voting for "Mr. Jones" -- I've seen it happen.

Call me naive (and you will) but I refuse to believe that racism in the voting booth is as large a factor as many claim.

[Ron Beasley]

Karl
I was discussing this with my brother last night. We both live on the West Coast, Oregon and California, and we don't see much of it here. In the midwest and places like PA I think it could make a difference and those are battleground states.

[anderson]

Think of this as yet another explication of the brewing plans for stealing the election.

The writing is on the wall, the charge: voting while Democrat:

-- Michigan foreclosures wielded by state GOP as a tool of voter disenfranchisement.

-- 600,000 in Ohio face pending purge, "disproportionately voters of color and young voters." based on voter caging.

-- fraudulent absentee ballots sent to Democratic voters by the McCain campaign,

-- Jewish voters targeted in two states, smearing Obama as having ties to the PLO

-- Restrictive Voter ID laws, designed to disenfranchise targeted Dem demographics. Indiana's new, Supreme Court blessed, law is expected to hit some 143,000 likely Dem voters.

-- Phony RNC mailings in Virginia, like those used in Florida 2000, to justify purges and poll challenges.

-- With newly tightened ID laws, Florida named "most hostile state in the nation to new voters."

And even today, votes are being "lost" by electronic voting machines:

-- 100,000 votes disappear in CA primary

-- 16,00 votes disappear in a FA primary in Palm Beach county on Sequoia machines.

-- 3500 votes disappear in FA primary in Sarasota county; Diebold machines.

Diebold itself admits that their own tabulator software doesn't count votes correctly.

Beware people. This is all being ignored in the mainstream in favour of narratives that have little to do with the ground game currently being laid by the GOP. They are smoke and mirrors, just like the mythical "values voters" story used by the media to "explain" Bush's hacked and jacked win in Ohio. Those values voters never existed, but they provided the cover story.