>A different question about Obama: How did he/the team do it?
>
>Looking at the exit polls for him, the guy took every category and
>by handsome margins, except for self-confessed
>conservatives/conservative protestants, "moral values" types, and
>that was about 27% of the electorate -- the percentage the RP guy
>got. In other words, that would seem to be the hardcore base of this
>RP regime in a context like Illinois. He won with whites and blacks,
>rich and poor, no HS through post-grad, urban and rural -- everyone!
>He even won with those for whom "terrorism" was the big issue. And
>he did this, going by the victory speech, with a narrative that's
>acceptable, unless of course he was going "bomb Iran" during the
>stump (did he?). And he did it with his name and his colour. That's
>some achievement.
It is, but his opponent, Alan Keyes, is an egregiously far-right loon even by the standards of the American right. And he's darker than Obama, so color needn't be controlled for.
Doug