Barack Obama Notes

Obama and Race

• 5% openly say they'd prefer to vote for a white candidate: [http://www.slate.com/id/2175496/]
• 13% think Obama is Muslim
• In Alabama, where Obama spent virtually no time or resources, he lost whites making under $50,000 by 87 to 11 percent and non-college whites by 90 to 9 percent.
• Anecdotes:
  • Ferraro (white woman) thinks Obama would not be where he is if he was a woman
  • RP (white man) thinks Obama would not be where he is if he were not black OR a woman
  • Neither of these can cite any evidence, yet they appear quite convinced
  • I have yet to hear any black male state that he thinks being a black male was a big help to Obama