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For JohnD2008 (and Whispers),
How about traveling some heavily black places and doing a report on blacks who won't vote for McCain just because he's white.
This is stupid. Blacks don't need a racial reason not to vote for Republicans like McCain. Forty years of being screwed and called welfare queens by Republicans like Reagan, Gingrich, and Bush is enough.
For your analogy to make any sense, you'd need to find black people to whom McCain actually had something to offer -- rich lawyers making over $250,000, homophobes or anti-abortion fanatics -- and then see whether they're voting for Obama based solely on skin color.
There aren't too many of those.
Of course, that wouldn't be PC to do such a study, now would it?
The term "PC" lost all meaning about 10 years ago. These days, "I'm not PC" is just a way of blustering, "I'm an a**hole but you can't call me on it."
