"One of Barack's pet sociologists has written that when people have a secret vote, they might not vote for a black man. This may be why the DNC has moved away from primaries and toward caucuses. As Hillary discoverd to her loss, this makes it easier to diddle the results. I wonder if Barack gets in with a Democrat Congress, how long the secret vote will last."
It's a comment on an article I was reading.
It really stopped me in my tracks. Please remember back...at how well Obie did in the Democratic caucuses, but how so many actual elections were won by Hillary.
Partly explained as the result of getting out the truly motivated to caucuses (for which, I understand, in some cases you had to pay to participate), it never occurred to me that pressure to appear "non-racist" might skew the results.
Of course, I don't believe that because one is against Obie one is a racist....but I can certainly understand the intense Politically-Correct-Race-Politics pressure likely brought to bear upon Liberal Democrats to publicly declare for Obie, the first Black Candidate.
And when you see the overwhelming wins Hillary had in secret ballot votes, it does raise the question.
I don't know if the quote above is true, or can be properly attributed to an Obie operative. But it certainly opens an interesting line of inquiry...which ends with the fact of the General Election's Secret Ballot...
...and the question...
...if the Democrat vote was skewed by race-baiting in caucuses, and Obie got more votes than he would have otherwise as a result, his entire campaign is based on a false premise, and many of those who might have voted for him in public, may change their minds in the privacy of the voting booth.
And if this line of thinking has any validity (I'm not sure it does), then it is likely that the same thing is true with polls. What people feel publicly pressured to say "out loud" may not be, after all, what they actually believe.
It will be very interesting to see if the polls and the caucus numbers accord with the final results of the election.
The Gunslinger
Now that we have Sarah Lou on the ticket it becomes a PC conundrum. If you don't vote for Obie you're a racist but if you don't vote the McCain/Palin ticket you're a sexist.
ReplyDeleteIf the unions succeed in doing away with the secret ballot I'm sure Obie will accept that as the will of the people and a benchmark to strive for.
On a related matter, a good friend who's very conservative is married to a gal who is extremely liberal thanks to taking a degree in "Womens Studies" (a lot of tension in that household). After McCain's choice she asked him if he really thought that women were so stupid and shallow as to vote McCain just because he had a woman on the ticket. Which begs the question, are blacks so stupid and shallow to vote for Obie just because he's black?
http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/video/index.htm....Interesting documentary excerpts from Dem caucus members about shennanigans.
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