Mother Jones - Comments for "Obama Wins Mississippi, and It's All About Race"

kevins way of how to be champ....

this is the right way choose it & achive it
MississippiDrugTreatment

Uhm...

We've had a good, long look at Obama, here in SC.

We're thinkin' it might be possible, IF the mobilization effort of the primary can be duplicated in November AND we can get a large majority of those who voted for Edwards or the Hildebeast to put their "X" beside Obama.

Best bet...John Edwards as VP!

-T

Black is PHAT. That's Obama's idiotic platform.

Obama said some voters might favor or disfavor him because he is black, just as some might favor or disfavor Clinton because she is female.

However, he said, "the overwhelming majority of Americans are going to make these decisions based on who they think will be the best president. I have absolute confidence that if I'm doing my job, if I'm delivering my message, then there are very few voters out there that I can't win."

"If I'm not winning them over," he said, "then it's my fault."

*****

People can say what they will - this guy is saying the right things. How refreshing to hear a politician (however flawed) rise above, be honest and take responsibility for his actions.

He sure seems more the real deal than any candidate I have heard from in many years - if ever.

Jonathan:

Obama can turn the RED states BLUE, so when Obama turns the RED states BLUE, the Democrats donkey should be BLUE as well, because the Democrats donkey has been crippled with those blood RED legs.

The democrats should get real.

There should be one and only one criteria for their primary vote; who has the best chance of winning the general election. Period. End of statement.

If the rank and file voters can't settle it, then the superdelegates should. I doubt they have the b**ls.

Obama is about as far left as Huckabee was right. HRC ain't much better. It looks to me as though the Democratic voters think either nominee is a shoe-in. So they're playing their little tit-for-tat while the opposition is lining up the big guns. The 'Who Would Make a Better President' game is stupid. The question is who can get elected. It's my guess they're going to blow it.

Primaries decide who can win. General elections decide who will make a better President.

answer me this. when a state is say 90% white or the democrats in a given state are 60% percent white do you still say that the voting was all about race?

Agreed. Double standard.

similarly why don't I hear how many black voters vote for McCain or how many black voters vote for him and arguments as to why or why not and is it a problem? or how many women or women of a certain age or any of his demographc numbers?

answer me this. when a state is say 90% white or the democrats in a given state are 60% percent white do you still say that the voting was all about race? It seems to me that if the democrats in mississippi were 50% black it would commonsensically mean that the voters would be black so when is it just voters and when is it black voters?

In answer to the question "can Obama win Mississippi in November?", No.

But he can elevate African-American turnout so much that the GOP will be compelled to use more resources there (and in Alabama and South Carolina) than they care to, which translates to fewer resources in the new battleground states.

Yes, Virginia, you can vote Democratic!

Mother Jones - Comments for "Obama Wins Mississippi, and It&#039;s All About Race"

Mother Jones - Comments for "Obama Wins Mississippi, and It's All About Race"