White Voters and the Fall of the Democratic Party

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Yes, but the elections have become a popularity contest, and that is it. When the majority of Americans are tired of the war in Iraq and the situation with our economy at home, they are set up to make a rash decision by voting for "change" this election cycle.
The decline of America will continue...

of SC 12:34PM August 26, 2008

So you make the point that the Republican party dominates in the vote among lesser educated people. No surprise there.
I am also amused that you suggest that "overregulation" is a problem, when many of the economic problems we are facing today are due to lack of regulation: subprime mortgage crisis and high gas prices are two prominent examples.

Bill Davies of KS 1:09AM August 26, 2008

The song sounds the same ,back when Cuba was, and 40 years later look what WE will have,ours will be 60 years. you all who have less will be living the Cuban life style. And the haves will all ways have . It's called WORK not a hand out!Vote your way into Hell!

Dayze of NY 12:57AM August 26, 2008

You weren't voting for Obama in the first place. That book has been debunked by not only by the Obama campaign but also the MSM. Obama has to convince some of these folks to vote their pocket book because I don't think people are earning as much as they were 4 years ago. There will always be prejudice people but some folks do like living indoors and eating so I think that will win out.

jeff of DE 8:20PM August 25, 2008

The book by Mr. Corsi is not factual and has no factual basis. It is this type of bias that detracts from America. President Bush had less experience than Mr. Obama when he went to his first nominating convention. Is the American dream reserved for one segment of the country's citizens? Mr. Obama has done all that is asked in this society to be accepted and to achieve. It is the narrow mind that cannot see the beauty all around them.

george kelley of DC 5:59PM August 25, 2008

Obama has been presented to the American public as a "personality", he is not a candidate who has the ability to lead this nation!!! His mentors,whom he saught out, are not good people interested in this nation's welfare! Wm. Ayres and
Bernardine Dorn were terrorists to this nation in the 1970's,
Jeremiah Wright,whom Obama sat and listened to on Sundays for 20 yrs., hates America and the rich white man. Obama was very aware of this. Obama got money from Tony Resko,a corrupted slum
lord in Chicago, to buy his home. Loans that Resko got from the
U.S. Government were not used as they were intended for rehabilitating the tenements which he owned. Resko is a close friend of Obama, giving him contribution $'s Etc. Obama, to me, is very "SCARY". All change is not good!!! He plans to take money away from people and redistribute it!! That sounds like "socialism" to me. People work hard for what they have, some have paid lots of money for education to get where they are,why should someone come along with the idea that he can redistribute what thay have earned. He actully has a "rage" inside against the "white man". He attended the Million Man
March in 1995 in D.C. led by Louis Farrakhan(leader of Nation of
Islam). I actully thought in the beginning that it would a good thing to elect a black president, it might further improved relations with the African American citizens, but Obama is not the right black man for the job. I believe that we would be left vulnerable to many awful happenings in our nation. Have you looked at what he proposes for taxes!!! I suggest that you all buy the book that is out by Jerome R. Corsi, The Obama Nation, you will see an understand soooo many
things about Obama. He does not have the experience, in those
areas in which he should, to be our next president!!

Lorraine Meier of WY 3:53PM August 25, 2008

There was once a television campaign that celebrated 'diversity', encouraging people to celebrate our differences. Not only did this fly in the face of human psychology, it gave exactly the wrong message: That we have differences.
While this is undeniably true, the fact is we are more alike than we are different. We shouldn't celebrate our differences together. Most people don't like them, don't want to acknowledge them and don't want them rubbed in their faces. It's a matter of personal comfort and choice. Go ahead and do your different thing, just not where I can see it or have to encounter it.
It's much like differences in religion: Each has a truth they peddle and exclude anyone else. No one of any race can deny they don't feel more comfortable among those of their own race. No one of any culture can deny they feel more comfortable in a culture similar to their own. Psychologically speaking, these are inherent human traits, probably a learned behavior, but certainly compelling ones which must be acknowledged in order to get people of different races or cultures (or with differences of any kind) to get along.
We need to emphasize our similarities; those things we have in common. To get beyond seeing the differences, we have to see what we have in common. The Republican policy (thanks to Karl Rove) has been selfish divisiveness - if you're not with us and support us, you're against us and a traitor. We need a new message of unity: let's focus on what we have in common.
Given that message, one of hope, openness and inclusion, then the Democrats may be able to not only redeem themselves as the party of the 'common man', but also pull off what I still think is an impossible task in Racist America: Electing a black man to the Presidency.

Fatesrider of CA 3:49PM August 25, 2008

...this is what I see:
It's not white people in general but the angry, low educated, low income groups that have the problem. I know people are like flocks, birds of a feather and it's natural not to trust change. But, if they let the color of a mans skin change them, then they would deserve the pain that a third Bush term would bring. The bad part, we all suffer with them.
A mind is never free and at ease unless it's open.

Dr Myron of VA 2:42PM August 25, 2008