<p>I think Kluge nailed it. The fact that voters are learning to set aside the “expectations” that they should vote along racial divides, especially their own, is getting more tangible and apparent every day. Well apparent to most, except to the campaign that still clings to the notion that all it takes is a nice staged tearful event to drum up the weak sex middle-aged vote. </p>
<p>HRH might find out that getting the hispanic voters will take more than the hollow and misleading promises that worked in NH and California.</p>
<p>According to CNN, " Obama did well as usual among young voters, independents and African-Americans.</p>
<p>But, that wasn’t all. He beat Clinton among voters 65 and older, blue collar workers and women. In Virginia, he won the white vote along with every income, education and religious group. He even won a majority of Latino support there."</p>
<p>I think it’s fair to think that Obama is getting some votes because he is black. But how many people will vote against him because he is black? Not all that many, it appears.</p>
<p>^ Hillary seems to be getting many votes because she is a woman. It appears that she actually has the most support from middle-aged and older women.</p>
<p>I think that gender is a big reason that she has done so well, particularly is states like NH.</p>
<p>Not that many are aware that his stump speech to African American audiences (“hoodwinked”, “bamboozled”, “okie doke”) is lifted code-word for code-word from the anti-white rants of Malcolm X speeches. Obama has run a very racially charged campaign in the black community, but the media has given him a free pass. </p>
<p>Compare, for example, to the week of media attacks following Clinton’s rather innocuous remarks about the glass ceiling in her speech at Wellesley. It sounded like wolves braying at the moon, “She played the gender card! Oh, my. Oh, my…”</p>
<p>But, Obama can quote Malcolm X on whitie oppression and not a peep about playing the race card…</p>
<p>Has anyone analyzed how much HC’s success in CA and NY was due to absentee ballots — people who voted well before Obama’s momentum turned into a tidal wave? </p>
<p>My H and I, for example, voted for Hillary weeks before Super Tuesday. We were thinking Clinton/Obama would be the ticket, an unbeatable one. It’s not hard to predict that that ain’t happenin’ now. The people I know who voted on election day all voted for O. It’s Obama who wears the mantle of inevitabilty now. I hope he picks his future running mate well.</p>
The thing I love about CC is you get stuff like this. It’s fascinating to watch the swiftboating of this election already unfolding. Obama uses a catchy phrase from a recent movie and suddenly he’s using “code-words” signifying an “anti-white” philosophy. For those not blog-whipped into unconsciousness yet, the “code-words” aren’t from Malcolm X, they’re from Spike Lee, delivered by Denzel Washington in a movie about Malcolm X, who probably never uttered the word “bamboozled” himself. And what Obama was talking about people being hoodwinked by were the phony “Obama is a Muslim” e-mails. So the blogosphere has now converted Obama’s refutation of the first set of lies into “code-speak” for anti-white hatred - and linked it to a prominent Black Muslim. You gotta love it.</p>
<p>Dude, put your mouse down and slowly back away from the blog! Nobody has to get hurt here, okay? ;)</p>
<p>I’ll admit it: I am clueless. Okey-doke is some kind of Muslim, anti-white code word? I use it all the time. Sometimes, I say “Okey-dokey smokey pokey!” to my kids, and I’ve never meant it as a political statement.</p>
<p>Notice that Obama never gives his “bamboozled” and “hoodwinked” Malcolm X by way of Spike Lee speech to a white or mixed audience. He started giving it in South Carolina at the same time he sent his campaign co-chair on CNN to accuse Clinton of crying about her appearance but not Katrina because she was a racist. This followed all of his surrogates singing a chorus of “Bradley effect”.</p>
<p>He’s been masterful in playing the race card.</p>
<p>OK, suppose Obama does make references to Spike Lee’s movie “Malcolm X” when he’s talking to primarily black crowds. (I have no idea.)</p>
<p>IMHO, if you tailor your presentation to your audience, that just means you paid attention during marketing 101 and you have some idea how to do the job of being a candidate. Is a candidate supposed to give the same identical stump speech in a union hall, a college auditorium, a rural church, and a party fundraiser? Any candidate who does that is a fool, and none of this year’s bunch, from either party, is a fool by that measure.</p>
<p>If you make cultural references to songs, books, or movies, you choose ones the audience is probably familiar with. I mean, duh.</p>
<p>I don’t see basic public relations strategy as some kind of nefarious “card-playing,” whatever that’s supposed to mean.</p>