Take Obama out of the picture and black voters flock to Hillary Clinton. At least, that’s what a Rasmussen poll about a mythical presidential match up between Clinton and GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin says. Personally, I think polling for somebody’s wet fantasy of a girl-on-girl political smackdown is, well, stupid and kinda icky, when you think about it. It’s not gonna happen for one thing, and, if I had been required to guess who would win before reading the article, choosing Clinton would have been a no-brainer. The pollees agree, 52% to 41%, though it’s impossible to know how many people responded with, “Oh, hell, who the hell cares?” before being cajoled into giving a response more likely to satisfy a hapless pollster.
There are a lot of other uninteresting stats in the article, but the one that jumps out like a mugger from a dark alley, is buried near the bottom.
White voters are evenly divided at 47% each between the two candidates, but African-Americans prefer Clinton by a whopping 83% to eight percent (8%) margin.
Didja get that? 83 freaking percent! Guess it’s a black thing, after all. Meanwhile, Philly.com’s Fatima Ali suggests that Obama better win:
If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness – and hopelessness!
I reeeeaaaallly hope she meant that race war thingy metaphorically. I think I have a prior commitment on Obama Riot Day that I’m pretty sure I can’t get out of.
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The “riot” thing is pretty played. Why don’t we “riot” to get repairs made on the schools over the summer so that our children don’t have to go back to ratty schools? Why in God’s name would anybody even threaten to riot on behalf of a man who has done absolutely nothing for us but ask for us to do something for him?
I’m sad.