2008 Presidential election about race?

rw wrote:
Maybe rdean has a point about the presidential election being about
race. It appears that if it weren't for white racism Obama's victory
might have been much larger:

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/white_..._in_the_st.php

I don't think that's the point which was beamed to earth from
rdean's home planet. ;-)

It's clear that race was not a significant factor in Obama's
victory. Obama didn't win because of his race he won despite
it. Look at the bottom right (how appropriate) of that graph.
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina all
racist redneck states. Now the upper left (also appropriate ;-),
not a lot of blacks voting for their race in Hawaii, Vermont,
Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Iowa.

I don't know how the Obama campaign identified those voters
who were both capable of "swinging" their state and who were
going to cast their vote for Obama primarily because he's black.
But for the sake of argument let's assume the Obama campaign
was able to pull off that miracle. Only two miracles to go. ;-)
Now you've go to get them to the polls, in big numbers because
there's not a lot of them (it could be as few as one voter ;-),
so how do you do that ? Herd them, or him, up and drive him to
the polls, threaten them with violence, pay them, what ? So,
OK however they got to the polls we'll give rdean Miracle #2.
Nobody but rdean and the double secret analyzers of data on the
home planet know about any of this. No mainstream press, no
bloggers, no pundits, not even Faux News ! Just rdean and the
fellows of the foil. Sorry, that's one miracle too many.

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Ken Fortenberry