Hillary Got The Whites-Who-Won't-Vote-Black Vote

Hillary Clinton’s entire margin of victory in Pennsylvania was due to racist whites who openly opposed Barack Obama because he is black. According to the exit polls, 13% of the voters were whites who said that race was important to them in voting, and 74% of them voted for Clinton.

This means that more than 9% of all the voters in the Democratic primary were openly willing to admit that they voted against a black candidate because of his race, a figure similar to what I’ve analyzed in previous primaries.

While race hurt Obama, gender aided Clinton. 19% of voters said that race affected their votes, and 59% of them voted against Obama. By contrast, gender greatly helped Clinton. About 20% reported that gender affected their vote, but only 29% of these people voted for Obama, and a majority of those voting for or against Clinton because of her gender were women.

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Comments

[abellofgrace]

07:56 PM on 04/29/2008

Obama did not get as far as he has gotten with the " blue collar", " Reagan democrats", or "working class democrats". The point of the matter imo, is that the Clintons who know whose who, did everything in their power to not only fan a racist mentality, they made sure that Obama DID Not get through to them at every opportunity that they could. I'm just saying, that Obama Does Have the capacity
to win over those demographics, (and the Clintons know that too)..it's just that from the beginning, THEY, (the Clintons), played the race card so as to make sure that very demographic wouldn't forget, "that he's a black man". I say shame on the Clintons for not respecting Obama as a serious credible candidate. I'm honestly disgusted when it comes to the Clintons.

[ragtopdodge]

09:24 PM on 04/24/2008

Good point.

"blue collar"==white racists.
"working class"==white racists
"Reagan Dems"==white racists.

Code-terms for people who think that "Obama is not of the people. He's an UPPITY NI**ER!"

Clinton is such a liar, who voted for the Iraq War and never apologized for it, yet people vote for because...why again?

Oh yeah...she's white.

[mrman]

02:00 PM on 04/24/2008

As quiet as it's kept I think the problem gos beyond just being black for Senator Obama. He's Black and "uppity". Case and point...today on Morning Joe ..the Moron (JS) said that Obama shouldn't have worn SUCH a nice suit when he campaigned in PA. Suggesting that if he dressed down the people wouldn't feel like he thought he was "better" than them. Perception is everything. He actually thought these people deserved to see the best he had to offer. Why save it for the "big boys" when it's the ordinary people that are America? So he pulled out his best. Originally he had this "uppity" problem with the black community...hence "not black enough"...translation.."he thinks he's better than me". Fortunately we came to our senses and realized this man was genuine ans sincere. It had been decades since we saw "sincere" on a politician and the light almost blinded us. I feel bad for PA whites because the Obamas really are the closest to working class , top tier politicians they're likely to see in a long time and their mind and hearts could have been a little more receptive.
A truly missed opportunity.

[meanguy]

10:14 AM on 04/24/2008

oh, dear sweet merciful Jesus...haven't we gotten past this "if you don't support the obamessiah you must be a racist' garbage? i'd like to think that we've progressed as a society to a point where people can actually oppose the candidacy of a black senator without being called 'bigots'...but, apparently we have not. at this rate, al sharpton will be the next party chairman

[Sonny James]

08:58 PM on 04/23/2008

This is what Govenor Ricardson meant, when Hillary suposedly told him, "Obama CAN'T win."
The CAN'T was about.... well read this article.

[ljmck]

03:28 PM on 04/23/2008

Thank you for putting this so plainly.

Note that Bill Clinton, by claiming to be the victim of a race card, successfully brought racism to the fore just before the vote. It wasn't an accident.

The Clintons are ready to "obliterate" anyone who challenges them, and the African-American community was the first to go.

[DennyCrane]

03:06 PM on 04/23/2008

I would love to see the MSM ask the hard questions. If working class whites, older whites, and Hispanics really have issues with blacks, where does it stem from? But asking the media to actually address important issues would be asking too much. So we use code words.

[meanguy]

10:15 AM on 04/24/2008

the working class whites don't have a problem with blacks, we have a problem with an unqualified con artist named obama

[meanguy]

10:22 AM on 04/24/2008

here's the thing that you obamaniacs just can't get thru your head...it's not blacks that we middle class whites have a problem with...it's a political hack masquerading as a 'new messiah' ...and a lot of us actually believe in judging by the 'content of the character' and have found obama lacking...instead of judging US by our skin color and calling us bigots, maybe it would be helpful to grow up and deal with it...

[Dewtrell]

03:42 PM on 04/29/2008

But Clinton has character? LOL... okay

[mrman]

12:17 PM on 04/23/2008

You will never hear this on the MSM because the code word is "blue collar" or "Regan democrats".
A bigot is a bigot...college educated, woman, man or manual laborer.