Senator Obama is going to get 98% of thw black vote but his campaign handlers still felt compelled to pander to blacks.. Senator Obama is going to get less than 50% of the white vote and less than 50% of the male vote, yet his campaign staff feels comfortable ignoring them.. That means that hsi campaign is very confident that they will win and that the choice of VP does ot matter in the least. It also means thta for all of the talk of change, Senator Obama is running a convential Democratic party campaign.

The real question is what kind of policy positions will an Obama Administration take knowing that the republican Party has become irrelevant to politics and his Adminsitration can reward core Democartic groups.

Senator Obama is going to get 98% of thw black vote but his campaign handlers still felt compelled to pander to blacks.. Senator Obama is going to get less than 50% of the white vote and less than 50% of the male vote, yet his campaign staff feels comfortable ignoring them.. That means that hsi campaign is very confident that they will win and that the choice of VP does ot matter in the least. It also means thta for all of the talk of change, Senator Obama is running a convential Democratic party campaign.

The real question is what kind of policy positions will an Obama Administration take knowing that the republican Party has become irrelevant to politics and his Adminsitration can reward core Democartic groups.

If the Republican Party is going downhill it's because the white men who control it aren't open to any ideas other than their own outdated ones.

If the Republican Party is going downhill it's because the white men who control it aren't open to any ideas other than their own outdated ones.

1. I agree that it's not a problem that he will continue to run for the Senate. The Democrats strategically would prefer for him to run in the Senate, because he is more likely to keep the seat in the party than than someone else, though Delaware's a pretty safe state for the Democrats any… Read Moreway. If Biden wins, he will be replaced by a Democrat.

2. I don't think he needed a moderate to balance his message. Besides, the whole liberal/conservative construct has been dealt a blow by Iraq and big-government Republicans. I wouldn't call Obama a moderate, but he's not the leftist many make him out to be. A good example is in the New York Times Magazine piece on Obama's economics. It's a long article, but worth reading, as you see Obama show an understanding of the good points in Reaganomics and the Chicago/Friedman camp. Here's a link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/magazine/24Ob...

3. I favored Richardson early on, and like you, I thought he and Biden, as well as Dodd were all more qualified than the media-selected top 3 candidates. However, I think that the quality of Clinton and Edwards shone through, and the primary process worked, and both parties picked their best.

1. I agree that it's not a problem that he will continue to run for the Senate. The Democrats strategically would prefer for him to run in the Senate, because he is more likely to keep the seat in the party than than someone else, though Delaware's a pretty safe state for the Democrats any… Read Moreway. If Biden wins, he will be replaced by a Democrat.

2. I don't think he needed a moderate to balance his message. Besides, the whole liberal/conservative construct has been dealt a blow by Iraq and big-government Republicans. I wouldn't call Obama a moderate, but he's not the leftist many make him out to be. A good example is in the New York Times Magazine piece on Obama's economics. It's a long article, but worth reading, as you see Obama show an understanding of the good points in Reaganomics and the Chicago/Friedman camp. Here's a link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/magazine/24Ob...

3. I favored Richardson early on, and like you, I thought he and Biden, as well as Dodd were all more qualified than the media-selected top 3 candidates. However, I think that the quality of Clinton and Edwards shone through, and the primary process worked, and both parties picked their best.

1. Go to barackobama.com
2. click on the people tab.
3. read the list of ethnic groups to which Senator Obama is pandering.
4. Notive that whites and men are not there.

1. Go to barackobama.com
2. click on the people tab.
3. read the list of ethnic groups to which Senator Obama is pandering.
4. Notive that whites and men are not there.