How this would of changed the election
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djmtott
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I absolutely disagree. A black man in the Republican party has as much of a chance as anyone else.
Madrigal
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When I read that, I heard Groucho's voice.
djmtott
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That's your fault. Those of us that see past race don't have that problem.
Sett'bacca01
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So its 11ish EST and i'm watching the polls on tv and then Obama's declared the winner so everyone is going nuts. I keep switching between all the major news networks just to check out what they're showing.
I'm on channel 4 and they're showing some black people jumping up and down hugging each other. I switch to channel 5 and they're showing some black lady crying. I switch to channel 7 and they're showing 3 black teenagers celebrating, hi-fiving and even throwing up different hand signs lol.
All the networks did this for at least the next 30 mins before I just went to sleep.
So I guess white people aren't excited about Obama winning? I understand he's the first afro-american/minority president but I just thought it was weird at the time. Like the networks were worried that they couldn't show some excited white folk because theres now a black president and they'd be labled the racist network or some BS.
I'm on channel 4 and they're showing some black people jumping up and down hugging each other. I switch to channel 5 and they're showing some black lady crying. I switch to channel 7 and they're showing 3 black teenagers celebrating, hi-fiving and even throwing up different hand signs lol.
All the networks did this for at least the next 30 mins before I just went to sleep.
So I guess white people aren't excited about Obama winning? I understand he's the first afro-american/minority president but I just thought it was weird at the time. Like the networks were worried that they couldn't show some excited white folk because theres now a black president and they'd be labled the racist network or some BS.
djmtott
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Doesn't really surprise me much. Since he's the first black to be president they're going to show the effect it has on black people.
Maybe if his ancestors were slaves from the south I might be more inspired, but as it is when you look at his ethnicity all I see is the son of a white woman and a man from Africa. To me that's not really a story of the freed slaves overcoming history.
As it stands I'm not upset that a black man will be president. I don't even look at it from that angle. All I see is a far left liberal running the executive branch while the liberal congress will try to get all of their liberal agendas through.
Madrigal
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Yeah, I watched a bunch of different channels. They showed plenty of whites, latinos and asians celebrating too. You can go to youtube or wherever to confirm this for yourselves. Sorry to burst your bubbles.
Obama made gains with every demographic and won states in every region. It was a landslide.
You can't marginalize this. It just won't work. Sorry.
Obama made gains with every demographic and won states in every region. It was a landslide.
You can't marginalize this. It just won't work. Sorry.
Neils Bohr
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Same people, same issues, just different melanin levels
the guy on the right would have won by a "landslide"
How would the mentally unstable black man married to the heavily botoxed white lady won the election? It would be like voting for Ice-T.
Sett'bacca01
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Ease up being so defensive, i'm not upset about him winning at all, and to me the fact that he's black is irrelevant in this day and age. I see waaaaay past color, to not do so is ignorant.
I was just stating what I watched on the major networks, as to me the way they were cutting footage was to show the Obama had won the presidency for "the minorities" only. I was just as excited as the next Obama supporter.
The media has an ugly way of influencing what people think by showing what they see fit.
Mecinia Lu-a
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You know when Bush beat Kerry with 51% of the vote, the papers read, Country Divided.
Now with Obama beating McCain with 52% of the vote, the papers read Obama wins by landslide.
If you really want to look at a landside victory study the 1984 election. (Also in 1980 I think the margin was greater).
Obama's victory is around the same level of victory Bill Clinton had over George H. W. Bush as far as electoral votes, but with a smaller % of the popular vote.
djmtott
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You could say landslide as far as the electoral college goes, but 65 million to 57 million votes, a difference of 8 million votes, or 6.3% is not a landslide.
Madrigal
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We can all take out our calculators and make cases for why it was not a landslide.
But when a candidate wins in all regions of the country, improves his party's support across multiple demographics (if not all demographics), more than doubles the electoral count of the opponent, and significantly effects the balance of power in congress, it is a big deal. It's a mandate.
But when a candidate wins in all regions of the country, improves his party's support across multiple demographics (if not all demographics), more than doubles the electoral count of the opponent, and significantly effects the balance of power in congress, it is a big deal. It's a mandate.
djmtott
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The only mandate I see is that people don't want GWB around anymore, and he's poisoned the Republican brand for the time being. As far as congress goes, were you even awake in 2006? 2008 is just a continuation of that.
C'mon, let's see things for how they really are instead of through blue-tinted goggles.
C'mon, let's see things for how they really are instead of through blue-tinted goggles.