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Originally Posted by bajakian
President - Election Center 2008 - Elections & Politics from CNN.com
Check out the electoral college vote map- we really have become two different countries mashed together. The popular vote was pretty close with Obama winning very close contests in former swing or Republican states and both candidates winning by big margins in the rest. Obama won all the big urban states where the large groups of minoritys voted for him something like 96 percent and turned out twenty percent more than they had in the prior election. How can that not be racism? If it had turned out the other way around you know everybody including the media would be saying that the results were racially driven. When I saw that statistic I wondered why the other 4 percent didnt also vote for Obama. Were the 4 percent successful? Or did they have trouble filling out their ballots? Id love to know.
This hugely divisive election has me wondering how we pull it all together as a country. I hope that Obama ends up being a good choice and can bring our country together. The people wanted him and now they have him-I hope that everybody is happy with their choice in 4 years, though I'm not as optimistic as I'd like to be. Congradulations to the winners and good luck to everybody.
Richard
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Richard my friend,a flag is on the field.Obama won Virginia,the cradle of the Old Confederacy which also has the highest concentration of military voters in the country.He won Florida, which has voted democratic only twice in the past 40 years.Also North Carolina, hardly an urban liberal state. He won Iowa which has less than 2% minority voters.Also Ohio, New Mexico, Indiana,Colorado and Montana, all considered Republican and hardly "big urban" states.
Obama won 2/3 of voters age 47 and younger(of all races) and close to the same % of college graduates. Nationwide exit polls showed only one in 10 said race was a factor in their vote.
Do you actually have a problem that minorities or the youth vote turned out 20% more than prior elections?Why is that not a good thing? Do you actually think that is racists and the only reason Obama won the electoral votes by more than 2 to 1? I think not!Obama won because a majority of all the American people believed he was the best person for the job and to suggest it was due to racism is simply not supported by the facts and its dissapointing to see you say that.
John