And in that area of Maine (I live arcoss the bridge from Arrowsic) there is probably 5 black people including me. lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs

so many things going for barack, but being opposed to the war from the beginning will probably win more converts than anything.

i love that image. but i have no doubt NBC chose it just to plant the idea in (white) folks’ minds that it is only the black folk who are voting for obama.

that is what i fear most about the general election if obama wins the nomination: that it will turn into black against white, fueled by fuckheads like pat buchanan.

i initially had some reservations about obama because i was not confident that he had enough fight in him to beat back these republican bastards who have ruined our country.

and then it occurred to me that, as a black man, he is not allowed to show ANY anger, bitterness, resentment. he is walking a thin line here in that he must be perceived as NOT jesse and NOT al in order to avoid being painted as a throwback to the 60s and the civil rights fight.

i just finished The Audacity of Hope and i am more convinced that he’s got the fight, that he absolutely gets it and that he can go all the way.

still not happy with the health care issue. not happy that he went campaigning with donnie mcclurkin. oh well. i don’t have to have a perfect candidate, but i want one who recognizes that i’m alive in the us of a.

by the way, white, not jewish, red state. obama’s my guy. i was heartened by the fact that my bible thumpin’ baptist country girl mother-in-law cast her primary vote for edwards, because he was her candidate all along, but her next choice was obama.

the audacity of hope.

You’re so right. Pat Buchanan is a racist jerk and Chris Matthews & Joe Scarborough know it as well. He almost becomes defiant when speaking that Hillary is going to win this nomination.

It is eating Pat Buchanan alive that a black man might become President of the United States!
He can’t live with that! F%%% him!

It’s time to call MSNBC on this crap! I’ve had it with Pat Buchanan

I understand and appreciate your frustration. But, respectfully, I’ve never been a fan of censorship. The best way to defeat people like that is to face them head on and expose them in their own public forum – beat them on their home court.

To me, censorship avoids confrontation. It’s like asking big brother to “make the bad man stop being so mean to me!” It ignores the power that we have to challenge these comments on equal footing and speak up for ourselves – rather than ask a greater power to silence our enemies for us.

Hillary’s camp is trying to use MSNBC as a lightening rod for sympathy votes. It’s consistent with her victimology and feeds into yet another one of her vast conspiracies (right wing conspiracy, media conspiracy). It’s very Bush-like . . . in fact it’s the mirror opposite of the Bush approach (left wing conspiracy, liberal media bias). Clinton, like Bush, uses paranoia and false outrage to silence her critics. For example, they wanted a crusade against MSNBC for Shuster’s (admittedly inappropriate) comment about Chelsea Clinton. They kept the story alive even though MSNBC suspended him indefinitely and apologized at least FOUR times on air. There comes a point where a justified offense turns into a “kiss the ring” power trip.

Obama is kicking butt despite the ignorant things that have been said (both from the left and right). I take solace in the fact that Obama makes Buchanan, and other critics like him, look dumber and dumber every time he WINS! There will be nothing sweeter than watching the Buchanans of the world squirm once Obama takes his oath of office as PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! I’d rather stay focused on that.

Sorry for the rant. But I really dislike censorship. lol!

Go Obama!

http://reachblack.blogspot.com/

We need to lauch a campaign to have Pat BIGOT Buchanan REMOVED from MSNBC. His comments about Latinos and Blacks are WAY worse than anything Dave Schuster said about Chelsey. Pat needs to go. I am sick of him !

He’s always on Morning Joe spewing his bigotted bullshet about Barack Obama and “Black Voters” and trying to push this lie about Latinos hating Black people. I am sick of it! We need to act!

So let’s give credit where credit is due; Edward’s supporters, the johnny-come-lately-fair-weather friends that they are, are welcome aboard but I take as much offense to them claiming credit for Obama’s success as I did to Hillary’s IMPLICATION that it was really Lyndon Johnson that got civil rights done, a myopic, prejudiced assertion that Johnson himself adamantly dispelled in his State of the Union Address.

- non-jewish white guy from New England

Actually, there are a number of Sudanese immigrants living in Maine. Probably a thousand or more. I don’t know why in the hell they are there in the most inhospitable climate to somebody from warm Sudan, but they are there.

His attacks on religion and religious people are too much. He has stupid preconceptions about black people – e.g., Chris Rock was explaining how his last movie was based on a french film he liked, and Bill was all shocked like why would a black guy like french films. His ridiculous comment about how he knew blacks would come around to voting for Obama because they always come home to their own – and as proof he cited the OJ Simpson case. He also made a comment about why would guys care about the abortion issue because they don’t get abortions.

Look, I still enjoy his show mostly – but I think he’s the classic example of the limousine liberal.

The porn actresses and/or “models” Maher dates are hardly representative of most black women and does not mean he is not a condescending racist just the same. After all, hasn’t Bill Clinton dated a few black women too?

Big deal…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/02/10/VI2008021001313.html?sid=ST2008021002814

So with that preface, it looks like that Edwards dropping out had a very positive effect on Obama in Maine. Clinton seemed to retain her core of about 40%, while Obama picked up 20 points. I wouldn’t be surprised if the difference is attributable to Edwards (although there are a host of other factors of course).

And in response to babyming, another white Jew for Obama here.

And as to exit polls, Maine is 98% white. I think it’s safe to say that Obama likely got around 57% of the white vote in Maine. And seeing as how women usually outnumber men in the Democratic Party like 55-45, we can also extrapolate that he must have done well there too (assuming that turnout was in line with general party demographics).

One note of caution about the above analysis: Maine’s caucus system is semi-open. No Republicans can participate, but independents are allowed to participate if they enroll as a Democrat at the caucus site. So that may have altered the demographics (my guess would be that it skewed it slightly more male, but that’s just a guess).

I was worried about Maine because of the demographics. But he pulled it out anyways. By a large margin at that (last time I checked it was 18%).

Does anyone have the exit polls? I would have to think that Obama did well amongst white women (Hillary’s strongest group).

Go Obama ‘08!