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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-05-08 09:54 PM
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CNN: Obama will do well in this region because there are many blacks and educated upper-middle class
(elitists). Hillary will do well in this section where there are a lot of working white people.



So this is what its boiled down to on CNN for their analysis (again and again they say this as they draw little areas on their map). Blacks (and elitists) vote for Barack, and whites vote for Clinton. Im not sure why this isn't dripping with racism to anyone else, as well as stupidity. The depth of their analysis on their big screen LCD screen is sickening. Why use shades of blue, rather than just black and white?

Im bothered because it really is a self-fufilling prophecy. People who identify with "white/working class" are basically being told who "white/working class" people are suppossed to vote for. Who wants to be the odd man out, against their entire ethnic group (As CNN portrays it)? I really think it hasn't been this blatent until now. Its also...well, a VERY simplistic breakdown of who is voting for who (almost all race based according to them).

And no, don't tell me this is based on exit poll data, polling, and results thus far. This is based on the message CNN wants to portray. That is unless states like Colorado, Wisconsin, Idaho, (etc, etc, etc) are just full of African Americans and elitists.
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