White Voters

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Edwards' Endorsement Frees Obama In Picking Running Mate

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted May 14, 2008 | Off The Bus


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

The day after Hillary Clinton won a solid victory in West Virginia but lost 7 percent of the vote to a candidate who wasn't even running any longer, that candidate -- John Edwards -- has come off the fence and endorsed Barack Obama.

This endorsement is huge, not just...

Not The Time To Celebrate Clinton As Brawler

Tom Hayden | Posted May 13, 2008 | Politics


Tom Hayden

There are few writers I respect more, and have learned more from, than Susan Faludi. But she dangerously dismisses racism as a factor in drawing white male voters to Hillary Clinton's campaign in her New York Times op-ed essay this week Instead she endorses Clinton's archetype as a "brawler" who...

SNL's Brilliant "Sore Loser" Sketch Illuminates Senator Clinton's Shadows

David Quigg | Posted May 12, 2008 | Media


David Quigg

Amy Poehler's performance as Senator Hillary Clinton on SNL gave me a fresh, exhilarating reminder of the power and usefulness of two of my favorite things to make: satire and overexposed photographs.

In their essence, the two have everything in common. Both rev up reality until we're able...

Will Obama Win Enough White Votes to Beat McCain?

Art Levine | Posted May 8, 2008 | Politics


Art Levine

Hillary and her supporters aren't giving up on her arguments that she's the most electable candidate because she's won among blue-collar whites. She told USA Today in an article published today:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview...

Democrats Propose New Whites-Only Primary

RJ Eskow | Posted May 5, 2008 | Politics


RJ Eskow

A senior Democratic Party official outlined a new proposal that would allow only white voters to participate in the remaining primaries. Under this proposal the Party would only count the votes of Caucasians whose income level is considered to be "working class," and whose political orientation is considered conservative -...

Operation Anti-Chaos: The Narrative on "White Voters" Is Fiction

Al Giordano | Posted May 3, 2008 | Politics


Al Giordano

I turn on the TV, read the political columnists (and a significant number of analytically-challenged bloggers, too) and all I hear is a bunch of white folk prattling on about their favorite narrative: "Obama's losing white voters!"

They've swallowed the Clinton racially-obsessed spin, hook, line and sinker. Some, because they...

Obama, Not Wright, Is Obama's Worst Enemy

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted April 29, 2008 |


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Whoever on Team Obama keeps feeding into Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's seeming compulsive need to speak out on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright should get the swift boot. When Wright went on his latest public and media tear, Obama should have simply issued a statement saying this: Wright...

Can Obama Appeal to White Rural Men?

Robert Creamer | Posted April 29, 2008 | Politics


Robert Creamer

In a number of recent primary contests, white rural men have tended to support Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama. And the renewed focus on the views of Obama's Pastor, Rev. Wright, certainly doesn't help. But the notion that Obama "can't appeal" to white rural men sells short both Barack...

Clinton: Not Exactly The Great White Hope

Paul Jenkins | Posted April 26, 2008 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

Were Hillary Clinton the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have had this thing wrapped up in, say, Iowa, or a couple of weeks after that. Her inability to dispatch a presidential neophyte such as Barack Obama in a Democratic primary is precisely because, after...

The Importance of Black Voters, and the Stupidity of Ignoring Them

David Sirota | Posted April 26, 2008 | Politics


David Sirota

Jim Clyburn makes a very good point in the Washington Post today:

"We keep talking as if it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter that Obama gets 92 percent of the black vote, because since he only got 35 percent of the white vote, he's in trouble," Clyburn said. "Well,...

Obama The Less And Less Magic Negro

Leonce Gaiter | Posted April 23, 2008 | Off The Bus


Leonce Gaiter

Back in March of '07, black LA writer David Ehrenstein wrote a now-famous piece called "Obama the 'Magic Negro'." In it, he likened Obama to a favorite media "figure of postmodern folk culture..." that needs to be added to the canon of media caricatures immortalized in Donald Bogle's Toms, Coons,...

Pennsylvania & the Persistence of the Race Chasm

David Sirota | Posted April 23, 2008 | Politics


David Sirota

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to the Pennsylvania Primary


A few weeks ago, I published an article in In These Times showing how Hillary Clinton has been winning states almost exclusively in the Race Chasm - states whose populations are more than 6 percent...

Thomas B. Edsall

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On Course For Another White Guy Election

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Thomas B. Edsall   |   April 22, 2008 10:30 AM


Hillary Clinton's release Monday of her first Osama bin Laden ad sets the stage for a general contest that Republicans could only dream about: an election fought over issues of patriotism, 1960s radicalism, liberal elites, gun control, terrorist threats, intimidation...

White Men

Nora Ephron | Posted April 20, 2008 | Politics


Nora Ephron

Here's another thing I don't like about this primary: now that there are only two Democratic candidates, it's suddenly horribly absolutely crystal-clear that this is an election about gender and race. This may have always been true, but weeks ago it wasn't so obvious -- once upon a time there...

Race and the White Snob Industry

David Sirota | Posted April 16, 2008 | Politics


David Sirota

Think tank navel-gazer Michael Lind has a very long-winded article in Salon today desperately trying to downplay the issue of race in the 2008 political campaign. Like most white pundits, he can't seem to accept that yes, race plays a factor in American politics. And so he attempts to...

Judis Exaggerates Barack Obama's Electoral Death

John R. Bohrer | Posted April 15, 2008 | Politics


John R. Bohrer

Respected Democratic political scientist John B. Judis has an article in The New Republic which seems to say that Barack Obama surely cannot win the presidency against John McCain -- especially after his San Francisco comments.

To win in November, a Democratic presidential candidate has to carry...

White Male Vote Critical For Democrats

Washington Post   |  Dan Balz   |   March 17, 2008 09:21 AM


In the fierce campaign between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, a battle dominated by questions of race and gender, white men have emerged as perhaps the single critical swing constituency. The competition for the support of white men,...

What About The White Guys?

Catherine Crier | Posted February 6, 2008 | Politics


Catherine Crier

As they analyze the Democratic primaries, pundits focus on women, African Americans and Latinos. What about the white male? In the privacy of the voting booth, where will the white men go in November? Hillary Clinton should be worried.

Look at the match-ups. Examine Democratic and Independent voters. Democratic...

Writing the Obituary for Bradley Effect is Premature and Foolhardy

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted January 23, 2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has never publicly made mention of the Bradley Effect. The Bradley Effect is the label that's been plopped onto the penchant of many white voters to shade, deceive or just plain lie to pollsters and interviewers when they tell them that color doesn't mean anything...

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