Great article on Obama from Rolling Stone

[Phoenix Dark]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/13390609/campaign_08_the_radical_roots_of_barack_obama/

Then, running preliminary polls, his advisers noticed something remarkable: Women responded more intensely and warmly to Obama than did men. In a seven-candidate field, you don't need to win every vote. His advisers, assuming they would pick up a healthy chunk of black votes, honed in on a different target: Every focus group they ran was composed exclusively of women, nearly all of them white.

There is an amazingly candid moment in Obama's autobiography when he writes of his childhood discomfort at the way his mother would sexualize African-American men. "More than once," he recalls, "my mother would point out: 'Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet.' " What the focus groups his advisers conducted revealed was that Obama's political career now depends, in some measure, upon a tamer version of this same feeling, on the complicated dynamics of how white women respond to a charismatic black man. "I remember when we realized something magical was happening," says Obama's pollster on the campaign, an earnest Iowan named Paul Harstad. "We were doing a focus group in suburban Chicago, and this woman, seventy years old, looks seventy-five, hears Obama's life story, and she clasps her hand to her chest and says, 'Be still, my heart.' Be still, my heart -- I've been doing this for a quarter century and I've never seen that." The most remarkable thing, for Harstad, was that the woman hadn't even seen the videos he had brought along of Obama speaking, had no idea what the young politician looked like. "All we'd done," he says, "is tell them the Story."

What the hell? Complicated dynamics of how white women respond to charasmatic black men? WHAT

[Human Snorenado]

Shut up, white Republican.

[Flannel Boy]

Shut up, white Republican.

Does this look anything like a white Republican?

[Phoenix Dark]

His pastor is pretty radical, to say the least. IMO that kind of talk has no place in a church

But anyway, it's a good read. Despite my problems with Obama, I can't deny he's a fascinating character.

[Cheebs]

Obama has strong strong appeal to white woman. He is young and very attractive. What is wrong with taking advantage of that?

By the way I have a my.barackobama.com page now. I am part of his campaign.  I always watched politics from the outside but man I am going to work like hell for this man once the Iowa/NH stuff is out of the way and the MI primary comes up.

[Phoenix Dark]

Obama has strong strong appeal to white woman. He is young and very attractive. What is wrong with taking advantage of that?

Nothing. I'm confused why this writer references this "dynamic" as if it's some kind of fact. I've never heard that before

[Cheebs]

Obama has strong strong appeal to white woman. He is young and very attractive. What is wrong with taking advantage of that?

Nothing. I'm confused why this writer references this "dynamic" as if it's some kind of fact. I've never heard that before

Notice in his speeches, lots of young women screaming and cheering. You rarely see young women at political rallies like that. White single women 35 and under is a good base to have.


HOLY SHIT I KNOW HOW TO GET PD A GIRL!. PD when the MI primary starts creeping up go to Obama rallies, women will be all over you cause you just like obama. 

[Phoenix Dark]

I don't like white women that much

Besides, I already have a woman

[Cheebs]

I don't like white women that much

Besides, I already have a woman

vampire girl? You havent posted about her in ages we assume that went nowhere.

[Beezy]

I don't like white women that much

Besides, I already have a woman

lolololol

[Cheebs]

Also I see a big fault in Obama's primary strategy. Like less than 100k in a state show up for their party's primary. Obama has talked about the day of primary use things like facebook and myspace to get college kids out to primaries because he has a strong base there when they would never even consider voting in the primaries and over-whelm the traditional primary voters who would go Clinton.

NEVER rely on 20 year old's on myspace to get you elected. It's going to backfire. The internet under 25 crowd either won't care enough to show up or remember to.

[Cheebs]