How inevitable is an Obama victory?

So one or two idiots tell you about an entire sub-culture of people? Where's the connection? I mean sure, people at Mccain rallies probably aren't going to vote Obama, but if they're doing it just for the racism, why would they be at the Mccain rally? What would be the point, why wouldn't they just vote for the white candidate?

Yes there are racists in the Deep South, no they're not exactly numerous and they're certainly not in any position to swing the election in any way whatsoever; the benefits of him being black massively outweigh the penalties in terms of both publicity and mobilising traditionally non-voting demographics.

Please understand if I don't think that you're knowledge of US politics and society is that high - you're demonstrating extremely simple assertions based on what seems to be extremely unreliable sources, and you're portraying them as fact. Race, outside the Rev. Wright scandal hasn't hurt Obama in any significant way. As someone else said, the only place racism could hurt him are places that he wasn't going to win anyway.

The point is that various people are voting for McCain as they feel Obama is a "terrorist" or a "socialist (not exactly a bad thing)"

That has nothing to do with race.

>90% of black people are voting for Obama. That's unparalelled in American electoral history. What % of white people aren't voting for Obama because of race, and which states are they in? Ohio? Florida?

Watch out for the closet racists....

Argh, what are you implying? That everybody who supports McCain/Palin is a closet racist, or something?

Maybe not race, but with his background none the less.



Is there a way to validate that info? There's no telling what %of people aren't voting Obama because of his race.

After eight years of awful Republican leadership, you'd think this'd be a walk in the park for the Democrats, yet somehow its not...

No, I think you should read through the thread first, we've got past that..

As a 'right-winger', I do want to see McCain win.
Furthermore, I think it will be great to have Palin as Vice. She reminds me somewhat of Thatcher.

Personally, I feel Obama is playing the race card too much. 'Im black this, Im black that...', its like, I have eyes. And I see this to be slightly stupid, considering race shouldn't be brought into it.

I think its a bit unfair to inaugurate Obama with still two weeks to go.

But another thing which is slightly off topic, but not really; why is it that people don't support Obama are apparently racist? Its rediculous.

McCain for President!

Maybe not race, but with his background none the less.

A little boy from Nevada who is "special" is going to have his parent's coerced by the McCain campaign so that he will end up being taken into a voting booth under the guise of him "seeing democracy in action". He will then proceed to "talk" to the electronic voting machine and tell it that all votes must go to McCain. :yup:

Thatcher was a legend and a political genius. Please never ever compare the two again.

Then the accusation has changed, and is now fundamentally different.

Then how do you know there are a lot, and how do you know where they live?!

Why is Obama better again?

Disregard it

Like what?

He's the UK equivalent of a conservative; he's hardly going to shake up the system and bring capitalism crashing down.

The south has always been more racist and conservative than say... New York.

Argh, what are you implying? That everybody who supports McCain/Palin is a closet racist, or something?