Just thought I'd note we are probably all of mixed heritage. I can find some agreement with the fact that blacks seem to inherently vote democrat. IMO that really doesn't make it any better than simply voting on skin tone. If you'd like to see an example of crappy voting based on not understanding facts and simply voting democrat, come to Maryland and check out Martin O'Malley. He ruined the city of Baltimore and is now ruining the state voted in by primarily 3 counties in Maryland.

Obama has simply changed the way you win an election by playing down to the lowest denominator, video games, T-shirts for sale at mall kiosks, etc. It isn't necessarily bad. I mean if you're trying to get someone elected why not take the American Idol approach? Look how successful it is. This will be a defining election in a couple ways including seeing if these amounts of people who are "excited" about Obama actually show up to vote for him. The "youth" vote or "new voter" vote has routinely been a disappointment, but maybe that will be different this year.

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