One of the toughest pieces of demographic news out of the Pennsylvania primary results has been the fact that among the 13% of whites who said race was important to them, 75% of them went with Sen. Clinton. The take from this has been that there may be an institutional white-on-black racism, even among many Democratic voters, that Hillary Clinton would not have to overcome in a general election against John McCain.
Subtly, the Clinton campaign has been stoking this potential fact to scare superdelegates into securing Hillary the nomination. The MSM has been running with it, too, trying to paint Sen. Obama as somehow "unelectable".
As with so many issues over the past 6 weeks of this endless primary season, this is an area where Obama gets all the electability questions, while Clinton and McCain are left alone. So, to do my best to offer some balance on behalf of the Illinois Senator, I'll offer a few questions myself.
Did you know that both Hillary and McCain have extremely fringe pastors of their own? Did you know that 50% of voters say they would be less likely to vote for someone running for president in their 70's? (To put that in context, 48% say they would be less likely to vote for a Muslim for president.)
Did you know that the same number—50% of the electorate—specifically says they would never, ever vote for Hillary Clinton for president? That's half of all voters saying nothing, no matter how important the issue, no matter their party affiliation, would ever bring them to pull the lever for her.
Oh well, let's talk more about Rev. Wright! And didn't Barack Obama have the temerity to call the poor and unemployed "bitter"? And isn't he a shitty bowler, too? That guy is toast in November!
Forgive me if my next question seems unfair, or polarizing, or gender-baiting in any way. I'm only about to raise the gender issue, because race seems to be all people are willing to talk about on the airwaves. If race is used as the deciding factor in terms of who gets the nomination in August, then gender may very well be the deciding factor as to who gets the White House in November.
Currently, the big question on everyone's mind is how many Americans will never vote for a black man for president.
So how many Americans will never vote for a woman for president?
I'm not sure what's more disturbing, honestly: That the 13% of white voters who said that race mattered voted for Clinton, or that those 13% of white voters think that race actually does matter! Reply to this
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