Quote from FortuneTeller:
I believe I just read awhile ago that the majority of white people voted for McCain by 12% in this Yahoo article:
Look for this sentence in the article:
"Obama lost the white vote to Republican John McCain by 12 percentage points, according to exit polls of voters".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081108/ap_on_el_pr/mutts_like_me#full
So I don't see why anyone thinks the majority of whites voted for Obama.
Let's face it, McCain ran one of the most "mediocre" Presidential campaigns in recent memory . . . He picked Palin as his VP as a "gimmick" to solidify his base, but that didn't help him one bit with "independents" . . . and as people go to know Sarah Palin better, even staunch conservatives from their own party ( George Will and Lawrence Eagleberger ) didn't believe that she had the experience necessary . . .
As for McCain, he struck me as not having all of his faculties together . . . I actually recall seeing him on TV at one of his campaign stops making a speech that started out with, "My fellow prisoners . . ."
WTF???
His big economic proposal of spending $300 Billion of taxpayers money to buy-back bad mortgages FROM THE BANKS ( at inflated appraisals ) didn't make too many Republicans very happy either. It smelled of SOCIALISM - - - me subsidizing my neighbors defaulted loan and allowing him to get a better "renegotiated" rate while I have been dutifully paying my 6% mortgage, month in, and month out. - - - So much for being against wasteful Govt. spending!
As for voter demographics, the ONLY group that McCain won over Obama was >65 white males.
You can't win an election that way.
Duh.
It just goes to show that the Republican Party has really lost touch with the average American . . . and as a result, the party has a great deal of difficulty defining itself. Once the Party lied to Americans about how fiscally conservative they'd be with our money, a lot of Republicans AND more importantly
"independents" got turned off.
This election campaign will undoubtedly wind-up as a "textbook" graduate Poli-Sci course at many of our Nation's universities . . . One side dominated with organization, fund-raising, and getting their message out in a positive manner via the media, internet, and caucuses . . . The other side barely knew how to turn on the computer.
And here we are in the 21st Century.
Wow.