20% Of White Democrats Are Racist
After all, using the left’s own criteria for racism so often applied to the right, what else can you conclude from this?
Although attention has been focused on McCain’s problems with the GOP base, there are indications that some Democrats might defect if Obama is the party’s nominee. Overall, 20% of white Democratic voters say they would vote for McCain if Obama is the Democratic nominee. That is twice the percentage of white Democrats who say they would support McCain in a Clinton-McCain matchup. Older Democrats (ages 65 and older), lower-income and less educated Democrats also would support McCain at higher levels if Obama rather than Clinton is the party’s nominee.
In all serious, though, I think this theory has merit. The storyline we get from the media is one where McCain is the default nominee for the disaffected and not-at-all enthusiastic conservative base while Obama is all but in the White House already, but it’s worth noting that not everyone on the left likes Obama.
You’ve got to think that there are a good number of moderate Democrats who don’t look to favorably on Obama’s ties to far-left anti-war terrorists, his membership in a rather bizarre church, his duplicitous railing against NAFTA (which, let’s remember, was an accomplishment of the Clinton administration) and his rather naive and absurd foreign policy pronouncements.
When Fred Thompson was first getting into the GOP primary race a lot of analysts speculated that he might suffer from too much hype and not enough substance. Could Obama face the same problem in the general election?
My guess is: Yes. Whether or not that will be enough to penetrate the “rock star” image the media has painted of him, however, remains to be seen.
