StrangerThan
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What you've proved is that you will use an unsupported number from an unnamed source, and use it as basis to color in the racism box when anyone doesn't like the path Obama takes. You've proven that you'll ignore anything that doesn't line up behind what-ever colored glasses you wear, and that reality doesn't matter to you in that pursuit.
You mentioned that you thought politics wouldn't be something people would talk to me about in my travels. That is completely false. I heard more ranting over Bush when he was in office than the pundits were doing on the networks. I was asked several times, which side I supported. Never before or since has such a naked question been posed to me by a client. How I usually answered that question was with a vague statement about trying to figure out why we had more troops in a country where Obama was not. It was a safe answer most of the time, given that within 30 seconds of making it, I'd learn from their comments which side they supported.
What I've found since then is that a lot of people across the country supported Obama, and a lot are now disappointed in him. The economy was the largest single issue voters noted as the reason for their vote.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7709852.stm
John McCain's biggest supporting group were white evangelicals, something every other Republican has enjoyed since the platform adopted a favorable stance toward pro-life. If you look at how this election played out in the polls, it is clear that, for the base, they voted along party lines. What is also clear is that Obama made significant advances into many areas that were traditionally Republican. John Kerry garnered a little over 48 percent of the vote during his run. Obama increased that number to 53 percent.
Taking it overall, the election followed trends from election years in the past, with the exception of Obama making a lot of inroads into Republican strongholds. If your numbers are to make sense, then he should have lost the election, not won it.
I'll tell you why Obama is disliked in many cases. First he's a Democrat. In this country, like or dislike follows on the heels of which party you are or aren't. Second, the economy was the largest concern voters identified in 2008. A great many find his leadership lacking and ineffective in that regard. Third, when his supporters tout jobs he has created, they ignore the fact that we've lost many, many more than has been created, and ignore the fact that a good percentage of those jobs leave people under-employed. Fourth we have the ACA, which according to a Kaiser poll, indicates only a third of Americans believe the ACA will help them. The link below has several links to different polls, all of which find that the country is either split on the subject, or where those opposed have a significant edge.
Gallup also notes that employer based health care coverage has been on the decline, dropping nearly 4 percentage points in the last few years.
Obama won with a broad coalition of voters, increasing gains among white voters, gaining virtually all of the black vote, and a large percentage of the hispanic vote. People were ready for hope and change. What they've found him to be is weak and ineffective - something liberals complain about as much as conservatives do.
Here's a bottom line, and prediction for you. If Obama can turn around the economy, he'll win the next election hands down. If people start feeling better about themselves in economic terms, he'll win. If h doesn't, he stands a good chance of losing and it will have nothing to do with his skin color.
But you keep believing a republican.
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RE: NYT article on lack of respect by GOP - 
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