rw wrote:

http://www.statesman.com/news/conten...amaracial.html

You keep harping on the same theme. Are you a loony ? ;-)

I've read a lot of election postmortems, this weeks New Yorker
is devoted almost exclusively to them. There is universal agreement
that the economy was the most significant factor in this presidential
election. Nowhere did I read that the black 13% of the electorate
voted for Obama because they are black racists or that Obama ran a
deliberately racist campaign targeting black racist "swing voters"
in selective ares. Apparently these longtime political analysts
didn't get the memo from Planet Grand Dragon. Were they using the
wrong brand of tinfoil perhaps ? ;-)

Obama did focus his campaign on the UFG voters (Up For Grabs). When
Democratic pollsters did their internal polls right after the Dem
Convention they found Obama ahead 49-42 in likely decided voters
but running way behind McCain in the UFG voters, so far behind that
if the election were held right then Obama would have lost. Obama
convinced the UFGs that he was the better candidate on the economy,
with a lot of help from McCain and the September credit crisis, and
that, my friends, is why we have president-elect Obama.

--
Ken Fortenberry