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Originally Posted by raymor
I can only speak about my part of the country and what I see on the web and in the media. From my perspective, until 2008 we always elected a candidate for president. In 2008, we elected a black man for president. Nobody called him the tall guy, or the good looking guy, or the passionate candidate. He was the black guy, especially to people in the "black culture". (As opposed to people like my wife who consider themselves simply Americans, whose great-great-great-grandparents happened to have come from Africa.)
There was a lot of talk about race. Heck, you've seen the polls - something like 40% of America said they wanted to vote for a black guy. That definitely brought race to the forefront.
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The hilarious thing about that is that if you recall the primary, it was black guy vs. woman. All the republicans would need to do to practically have a shoo-in given Obama's low approval rating is put up a viable female candidate so that people would enthusiastically vote in the first woman president. The only potentials that really came forward were Palin and Bachmann aka Dumb and Dumber/totally insane, and their male candidates have no one really modern-presidential. Mitt and Newt are maybe old-school presidential, good-ol boy club types but that's precisely what the country has come to hate since the 2008 crash, and of course Santorum is a fucking nut. It's amazing how the republicans could have fucked this up.