Both race and sex are an issue for some voters. I've read comments from random people who say they won't vote for Obama because he's black and other comments from people saying they won't vote for Clinton because she is female.
We know that some Americans are racist and some are sexist (well, probably all are both, but I mean very racist/sexist not just a little bit). However, we expect the candidates not to be. That's the difference.
The problem isn't that she said she's supported by poor white working people, but that she sounded like she equated working with white. And while I do believe that it's easy to have something come out wrong, she or her husband have made racist comments before in this campaign, which makes it harder not to put the racism aside.
I liked both Clinton and Obama until the comment about how Obama took a state, but it didn't really count because a lot of Black people lived there. Would we say that a state didn't really count for Clinton because a lot of White people live there? There were other things too, but that was the first thing to really annoy me.
I condemn the racism in the people too, but we're not discussing whether we'd vote for any of those random people who won't vote for someone whose skin has a greater than average amount of pigment in it.
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Re: WV demographics
Date: 2008-05-15 08:39 (UTC)We know that some Americans are racist and some are sexist (well, probably all are both, but I mean very racist/sexist not just a little bit). However, we expect the candidates not to be. That's the difference.
The problem isn't that she said she's supported by poor white working people, but that she sounded like she equated working with white. And while I do believe that it's easy to have something come out wrong, she or her husband have made racist comments before in this campaign, which makes it harder not to put the racism aside.
I liked both Clinton and Obama until the comment about how Obama took a state, but it didn't really count because a lot of Black people lived there. Would we say that a state didn't really count for Clinton because a lot of White people live there? There were other things too, but that was the first thing to really annoy me.
I condemn the racism in the people too, but we're not discussing whether we'd vote for any of those random people who won't vote for someone whose skin has a greater than average amount of pigment in it.