It is a GOP argument that Obama should pay lots of attention to the demographic revealed in this article. Efforts to get the votes of folks who admit caring about skin color or middle names are a waste of precious time that should be spent persuading less provincial and anti-intellectual voters, especially those independents in the swing states.

Of course, the GOP and the PUMAs would like to convince Obama to focus first and foremost on voters with the least chance of voting for him.

In a seminar about the importance of setting priorities, a speaker asks the audience how best to get as much of the material he has before him into a large bucket, and the material includes stones of various sizes, pebbles, sand, and water. The analogy, of course, is to the question of how best to create a full and fulfilling life.

The answer is to put as many large (high priority) things into place first, followed successively by smaller things, until at last you add the minutia (the water; the icing, the gravy).

A voter who says, "I know it's stupid, but Barack HUSSEIN Obama?!?!" should be prioritized as sand or a tiny pebble in this scheme, and worried about only AFTER all the larger stones have been gathered into the Ark.

P.S. A note on ad hominem: there is a vast, qualitative difference between saying that a man is an idiot because his argument is idiotic and saying that his argument is idiotic because he is an idiot. And so, it's one thing to discount someone because they endorse racism, anti-intellectualism, creationism or the Bush Doctrine (idiotic concepts all) and quite another to discount someone for BEING liberal or conservative, dark or light skinned, homo or hetero-sexual. Only the latter is ad hominem.

If you want to know why "small-town America" has had trouble identifying with Democratic presidential candidates, forget about race for a second. Let's face it. Obama's image as a candidate is the same as Kerry and Gore's were. For each of them, you've got a guy who you can't picture at a college football game or a barbecue. Here's a guy who thinks getting high and then trying to use a fake word in Scrabble is what it means to raise hell. This guy could not name a light beer, much less drink one. When this guy wears a flannel shirt, it's painfully obvious that some pencil-neck staffer bought it yesterday, at Brook Brothers.

This is a prescription for losing, people.

"For each of them, you've got a guy who you can't picture at a college football game or a barbecue."

Now I don't deny that this actually matters to some folks but honestly, the kind of mental defectives that show up to my school's football games is nobody I'd want running a country. This line of thinking slays me.

I thought after the train wreck that was the Bush II presidency, people would try to put less importance to this nonsense. Guess not.

In answer to your querie, you ignorant little dingle berry

Obama's votes will and have come from a very vast legion

But where will McCain's dried up crop come from

When it comes to harvest season?

You'd better ask some hard questions

As you recline on your smug little ass

McCain is already runnin' on empty

And it's way too late and expensive

To tank up the 'ol Model T

With a fresh tank of gas.

I notice you haven't answered the question. The same question you haven't been able to answer ever, have you?

Where is that majority just dying to vote your way for Obama supposed to come from?

Not all the drivel in the world can make up for not giving a straight answer to the one you've been asked months on end.

And its one you know has no answer, don't you.

Obama is going to lose. Badly.

And whatever validity you think you had in defining yourself by obsessively spending your life on this blog will just be blown off in one day. No matter how much you desecrate the language by the month.

By the way, I am sure I am not the only one wondering how you are subsidizing all this time here 24/7.

It wouldn't, KLYTUS, be government, um, benefits, would it?

-gala1

To crush McCain and his Alaskan manikin

As they grow ever more unsteady...

Its a shame where a African American who happends to be biracial have a chance to become president of the United States,people will not support him, the excuses just make me sick, because all its saying is, I will not vote for a uppidity negro. Bush was someone that everybody ( white working class was familiar with), look what he did, he basically made this country worse. War, gas prices went up, food prices went up, wages went up slightly, the United State still do not have Osama Bin Laden, but working class people voted for this guy. Lets make this clear Senator Obama is not a muslim he professed the Christian faith and some working class people still believe he's muslim. As far as Sarah Paylin go she still left Alaska with a huge deficit, she will take away a female's choice to have a baby, what fits her life style may not be fit for another person who choose to abort, if you make the argument of adoption there is not enough foster parents to adopt because of different reasons. Sarah Palin will cause more deaths with her decision due to females may take the option of self termantion which will cause more anguish. Trust me on this she will turn this country's progress back 50 years her views are more in line with communism where you won't have a choice in the matter, I thought thats what made America great we have the right to choose. Listen, people need to get over their bigoted thoughts because if they think John McCain is there savior they have another thing coming, its going to get worse, Senator Obama helped Middle America by help pushing for extra money for farmers to bail them out of dept he supported the legislation which Bush did not support. Obama helped plenty of people get back on their feet yet he gets slammed by the Republicans who is mad because their world view is from the 50s. Obama believes in age appropriate sex education, so little kids can know what to do if they are molested. I taught my daughter her body parts when she was in the kindergarten and told her no one has the right to touch her. In case something like that happends she know what to do. she will tell you how she was touched and what body parts was touched. We told her to come to us and the teachers or whoever in charge. Maybe if Sarah Paylins paid more attention to her 17 year old daughter she would not become pregnant if she was told at least to wear a female condom she would not become pregnant, Yes teach abstenance first but always make sure your son or daughter know how to protect themselves in case something does happend, thats what plan parenthood, and public school sex education does. But first it should be taught at home. Thats what Obama is talking about, Remember he has two daughters of his own I'm sure he loves them just as much as Sarah loves hers.

what is the difference between the people in Utah and the People in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio the People in Utah were the ones who supported Obama first, Black people was going to support Hillary until Obama put his name in the nomination.