Is there something that hasn’t been detected by the pollsters that is taking place in the 2008 election?
This election has been framed in large measure by the claim made byBarack Obama that he is the “black” candidate, even though geneticallyhe is only 6½% black African, and that people who oppose him are”racist.” Obama is 50% Caucasian and 43 ½% Arab. Yet he has kept hiswhite grandmother who raised him out of the limelight and talks abouthis black “Kenyan grandmother” who is actually no kin to him. She ishis grandfather’s fourth polygamous wife. In fact, if Obama had grownup in my neighborhood in the segregated deep south in the 1930s and1940s, since he lived with his white mother and white grandparents andhis father was nowhere to be seen and mostly Arab, he would have goneto the white segregated school with me. In fact, I’m actually darkerthan he is.When I point out that I am opposed to Obama because of his lack ofexperience, his voting record, his methods of campaigning, hissocialist agenda and accusing anyone who opposes him of racism, itseems to enrage Obama supporters. As a grandmother myself, I also don’tthink much of him for treating his white grandmother who raised him theway he has.
The reaction of pro-Obama supporters, even in my own family, to myreasons for not supporting Obama has been anger and accusations of”racism.” This strikes me as strange behavior for supporters of acandidate that is ahead in the polls. How many of the “undecided”voters, or even “pro-Obama” voters are telling pollsters that becausethey don’t want any more angry attacks. Many people now tell me theywon’t even talk to pollsters or anyone else about how they plan to vote.