Obama, Democrats and the Bubba Vote

Obama and the Undecided "Bubba" Vote
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Democrats haven’t won a majority of whites since 1964. The party leadership is worried that Obama can’t win if he doesn’t improve Democrats’ appeal to the white working class. Is the term “Bubba” helping or hurting Obama?

The “Bubba Vote,” a derogatory term that has replaced “Rednecks,” has come to mean rural, white, working class voters. Today these Bubbas are quite undecided and up for grabs.

Early in September former House majority leader Dick Armey, a Republican, made a statement in an interview with USA TODAY concerning these undecided white voters.

"The Bubba vote is there, and it's very real, and it is everywhere," Armey told USA TODAY and Gannett News Service. "There's an awful lot of people in America, bless their heart, who simply are not emotionally prepared to vote for a black man."

According to a recent AP-Yahoo News poll conducted Sept. 5-15, “18 percent of likely voters are up for grabs — undecided or willing to change their minds . . .” Many of the undecided are experiencing economic woes and consider the economy their top issue, and they are less intensely behind Obama than McCain.

Among these undecided voters, Democrats are much less intensely behind Obama than Republicans are behind McCain. Obama appears to have more people on the bubble, and many of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's former backers haven't fully committed, while McCain's backers are hard-core Republicans and excited by his running mate selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. . . .

A report recently completed by the Democratic Leadership Council argues that “it will be difficult for Obama to earn enough African American and youth support to compensate for enduring Democratic failures with white voters.”

Democrats have not won a majority of whites since 1964. Since 1980 though, Democrats have struggled to even remain competitive among whites, particularly men, and that has allowed Republicans to dominate the last quarter century of presidential politics. . . The report strongly suggests, however, that it will be difficult for the Obama campaign to win if he does not improve Democrats’ appeal to the white working class.

The questionable term, “Bubba voters,” seems to have caught on especially with Obama supporters and African-American columnists and bloggers.

An article Monday, Obama and 'the Bubba Vote', was posted in OpEDNews. It was written by Mumia Abu-Jamal (AKA: Wesley Cook) Former Black Panther Party activist, Abu-Jamal, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner.)

. . .If this Bubba vote has kept Obama from bouncing after a successful convention, McCain's Palin pick has compounded this problem.

For it demonstrates that all the hue and cry over 'experience' was but a smokescreen for something else. It shows us that all the clamor over 'qualifications; was naught but pretext.
For after all is said and done, for millions of Americans, Barack Obama's blackness has made him automatically ineligible for election.

That's not issues; that's not views, that's not politics; that's race. Period. . .

What else is being said about support or the lack thereof for Obama among undecided Bubbas?


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New Hampshire Polling Problems

You Racist Bastards!


It turns out that the polling information about the New Hampshire primary was not wrong. It was the voters who were wrong. It wasn't flawed methodologies or undecided voters, it was racism. You see, whenever the polling turns out to be wrong, it is inevitably the fault of racist pigs. And we all know how racist New Hampshire is.

Please don't get confused. It wasn't racism when the polls got it wrong in 2004. That was just everyone's super duper love for Commander Guy. And it wasn't racism in 2006. That was everyone just voting for a change--albeit a confused, drug-induced vote for change.

But in New Hampshire, it was racism, pure and simple. What evidence do I have other than Chris Matthews' man crushes and rants? Well, let's just take a look at the facts.

New Hampshire is almost 97% white.
Only 1% of New Hampshire is Jewish.
New Hampshire is home to the White Mountains.
The capital of New Hampshire is Concord. The Concorde was a white jet.
The largest city in New Hampshire is Manchester. Melissa Manchester is a white singer.
The highest point in New Hampshire is Mt. Washington. Washington owned slaves.
The McDonald's brothers were from New Hampshire. Black people love McDonalds. They get fat and die. McDonald's hates black people.

The evidence is overwhelming. Barack Obama lost in New Hampshire not because 20% of the electorate was undecided, but because those cross-burning, black-hating, lynching-loving bastards of New Hampshire couldn't bring themselves to vote for a Negro.

I hope you're proud of yourself, New Hampshire!

New Hampshire State Fair

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Other New Hampshire posts from the Blancasphere: * New Hampshire Primary, Part Tredici * New Hampshire Primary, Part 0011000100110000 * New Hampshire Primary, Part viii * New Hampshire Primary, Part V

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Watson Apologizes to Blacks:The Nobel Winner And the Forces of PC

[photo:CNN}UPDATE:
Watson Suspended From Research Post

by Mondoreb

UPDATE: 1:47 pm 10-19-07--James Watson has been suspended from his research post. The forces of political correctness are strong in the United Kingdom. From CNN:

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Nobel laureate biologist James Watson was suspended Friday from his longtime post at a research laboratory and canceled his planned British book tour after controversial comments that black people are not as intelligent as white people.

Our Original Story:
Score one for Political Correctness.
James Watson, Nobel prize-winning discoverer of the DNA double helix, discovered something quite different this week: what it's like when you say something that runs afoul of the forces of PC.

From CNN:

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Nobel laureate biologist Jim Watson apologized "unreservedly" Thursday for stating that black people were not as intelligent as whites, saying he was "mortified" by the comments attributed to him.

"I cannot understand how I could have said what I am quoted as having said," Watson said during an appearance at the Royal Society in London.

"To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologize unreservedly. That is not what I meant. More importantly from my point of view, there is no scientific basis for such a belief," he said.

There are mountains of research about IQ and the subtle, but quantifiable differences between groups, races and individuals. Professor Richard J. Herrnstein and AEI political scientist Charles Murray felt the PC backlash in 1994 when they published the Bell Curve.

From Wikipedia:
The Bell Curve is a controversial, best-selling 1994 book by the late Harvard professor Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray. Its central point is that intelligence is a better predictor of many factors including financial income, job performance, unwed pregnancy, and crime than parent's Socio-Economic status or education level. Also, the book argued that those with high intelligence (the "cognitive elite") are becoming separated from the general population of those with average and below-average intelligence, and that this was a dangerous social trend

It's dangerous when reporters, editors and bloggers attack research they don't understand. A comment which might be perfectly correct in a room where everyone is a scientist and used to rigorous testing of ideas is taken out of context. The forces of PC jump on it, shouting down the author, the scientist and the research itself. This is can be seen everyday in the debate about climate change.

James Watson's comments are the story here to many. The worrisome habit of branding something which is disagreeable as "racist" and shouting it down is what's troublesome. Climate change or IQ,: the forces of PC are more interested in a rigid conformity than they are in debate.

James Watson is the latest to discover this.

PITH on the Times

COMMENTING on the NY TIMES, Gateway Pundit waxes positively pithy. Pithy in a way that the TIMES' stable of lib blandionaires can only wish for the next time they spot a star (not Madonna):

And, of course, MoveOn.org's favorite discount rag is more than happy to push the democratic line

Sweet.
The Ugly Side of Another Failed Black Democrat
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Rights Trampled!Black Americans Insulted!Constitutions Upheld!I WAS A TEEN-AGE DISENFRANCHISEE!

NY Times Rebuttal
by Mondoreb

"The Ugly Side of the G.O.P. by Bob Herbert"
From the NY Times

Bob Herbert sounds off in this morning's NY Times, about what he'd do to those nasty Republican zombies, if only someone would just ask him.

I applaud the thousands of people, many of them poor, who traveled from around the country to protest in Jena, La., last week. But what I’d really like to see is a million angry protesters marching on the headquarters of the National Republican Party in Washington.

Rock on, Bob.
He continues.

Enough is enough. Last week the Republicans showed once again just how anti-black their party really is.

What heinous crime has Bob riled up? Are Republicans trying to block the confirmation of a black Supreme Court justice? Are they shunting blacks to the back of the Party special interest bus to make way for Hispanics? Are they ignoring millions of hard-working black folks and instead listening to craven race-baiters?
No. Those would all be Democrat actions. Then just what has this good man so upset?

The G.O.P. has spent the last 40 years insulting, disenfranchising and otherwise stomping on the interests of black Americans. Last week, the residents of Washington, D.C., with its majority black population, came remarkably close to realizing a goal they have sought for decades — a voting member of Congress to represent them.

So, it's the very act of upholding the Constitution that has Bob Herbert in a froth. If black voters in D.C. so ache to vote, a move a few miles away to Maryland would solve their problem. They would then be eligible to vote for a Congressman. They most likely could vote several times, if recent Baltimore elections are any guide.

The rest of the screed is like a descent into the fevered imagination of a DemTeen on a seven cup caffeine buzz. Now he gets to what's really bugging him.

In 1991, the first President Bush poked a finger in the eye of black America by selecting the egregious Clarence Thomas for the seat on the Supreme Court that had been held by the revered Thurgood Marshall. The fact that there is a rigid quota on the court, permitting one black and one black only to serve at a time, is itself racist.

What Bob doesn't mention here is that there is a strict quota in place: the one that black liberals employ. Their magic quota number is: zero. As it pertains to: "How many independent black thinkers will you tolerate on the Court?" Bob has his own strict quota action going on. Of course, I doubt if Bob thinks of himself as a racist. I say let's give him something he doesn't extend to those with whom he disagrees. Let's give him the benefit of the doubt.

Republicans improperly threw black voters off the rolls in Florida in the contested presidential election of 2000, and sent Florida state troopers into the homes of black voters to intimidate them in 2004.

Now, Bob Herbert seems like a nice enough guy; the New York Times saw fit to give him the use of perfectly good Op-Ed Page space. Must be a reason.

Bob Herbert is no slouch at outrage; like most good Times contributors he knows how to tow the Democrat party line. He just has to sound professionally outraged: hopping mad at the imagined slights of Black America. And these have to be true. They just have to. Bet that he even read some of those stories in that very same New York Times.

But Bob Herbert is old enough to know: like tales of zombies, alligators in the sewers and disenfranchised Black America, you can't always believe what you read in the papers.

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