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The AP tries to quantify the depth of the racist hole that Barack Obama’s campaign will need to scale: Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them “lazy,” Yesterday I was interviewed by Pete Dominick, host of Pete’s Big Mouth, on Sirius Radio. He led off his series of questions about Pennsylvania and the PA primary with a question about whether some Democrats voted for Clinton because of Obama’s race. I know some of them did, because quite a few of them I was at two of Obama’s rallies yesterday, and I’ve been asked what it’s like. An Obama event is a unique political event in my experience. It’s like a cross between an African-American church service, an intimate rock concert, and your favorite professor’s lectures. There’s the call and response of African-American churches, Inspired by Carrie Budoff-Brown’s Politico anecdotes from a Philadelphia neighborhood bar, I went to a bar in Monroeville, an eastern suburb of Pittsburgh, to gauge the fallout of the Wright controversy and Obama’s speech on race. I went to the River Towne Pour House, an extremely popular middle-class bar in a middle-class suburb. Out of a bar population of Carrie Budoff Brown of Politico.com has an insightful article out today on the reactions of several blue-collar white voters in an ethnic neighborhood in Philadelphia. While many, myself included, thought that Obama’s speech on race was the best oratory on the topic in our adult lives, it did not go over so well in this Philadelphia neighborhood. |
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