Of the two major parties, the Democrats are the party of race.
Exit polls in 2004 showed that John Kerry won 88% of the African American vote. In the same race, Zogby claimed that Kerry out drew Bush in Hispanic voters by 65%/34%.
In the 2008 primaries there has barely been a Democratic contest that didn’t have stories talking about how Obama or Hillary were likely to win or lose a particular state due to the presence, absence or mix of race included in the state.
I guess none of this is new or surprising.
On March 11th, 2008 the Rasmussen poll showed Hillary Clinton with a net favorability of -3, Barack Obama with +6 and John McCain with +5. Today, the Rasmussen poll showed the net favorability to be: Clinton -6, Obama -1 and McCain +10. If you look at the daily numbers you can see that this isn’t a blip but rather a definite trend.
What’s changed? On March 12th, Geraldine Ferraro resigned from the Clinton Campaign for saying that “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.” The day following that, the brouhaha boiled up about Jeremiah Wright and his statements that Barack Obama described as, “reflective of, I think, an anger and bitterness that is part of the black community’s experience.”
Isn’t it ironic that when the Democrats, the party of race, drop the platitudes and talk candidly about race, the public rejects them? What other topics do you think Rush’s “Operation Chaos” or the VRWC could arrange to get them to talk candidly about?
