On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:15:50 -0600, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

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.

You need to stick being an unemployed computer weenie. You are either
completely devoid of knowledge about that of which you speak, or,
intentionally misrepresenting things. This has nothing whatsoever to do
with any alleged "black racism" or _any_ racism. It's simply what the
data "clearly shows"...and who else might talk about what the data
"clearly.shows"...?

If anyone interested in this happened to see "This Week" this morning
(Sunday, 10-16-08), you may (or may not) have caught a comment by that
noted "racist" and ultra-conservative Sam Donaldson, in the "Round
Table" along with other rabid "racist" and ultra-conservative and New
York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who said that Obama would be beholden
to "dance with the ones that brung him" - "minorities" - and "that the
data was clear." He went unchallenged by all, who proceeded to comment
upon what Obama might have to do. No, I don't suggest this is proof
positive, but I would say that this is an indication that the data
exists and that it isn't "uncommon knowledge" among those with access to
it.

And anyone who wishes can go to the ABC News website and see the video
of this morning's show. It's about 1/3 of the way into the "Round
Table" segment.

HTH,
R