For many of us who watched the whole unfolding six or seven hours of Drudge build up, video leaks and Daily Caller ‘Exclusive’ all building to the Hannity episode it feels like something very weird just happened. Surreal, bizarre, self-parody, take your pick. Race has been a key division along partisan lines in American politics for roughly half a century. But the intensity has ramped up and in ways I do not think are wholly explicable through by the presence of a black president. You can also see it in the hyped up efforts at voter suppression. Read More
From TPM Reader JD …
I have been following this election since it started, though I know putting a date on it is a bit difficult in this case, considering Mitt Romney began running almost a half decade ago.
As a biracial man, perhaps I just haven’t been paying close enough attention, but for the first time since the election began, I have felt deeply, personally attacked by the vitriol of Republicans.
As many of you know, the combined forces of Drudge and Fox (and the Daily Caller) began trumpeting earlier today a major scoop: an earth-shaking, election-altering, Obama bombshell. Tune in tonight, etc.
Well now the story is out: “Obama’s Other Race Speech” is the headline at the Daily Caller and at Drudge, with Drudge teasing: “THE ACCENT… THE ANGER… THE ACCUSATIONS… THE SERMON…” Read More
Almost ten full polls of the presidential race in the last two days. Obama +3.2 in popular vote. Obama 332, Romney 191 in the electoral vote. Trend chart after the jump. Read More
I’m sitting here watching Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity discuss the intonations of African-American speech patterns and decry Barack Obama’s invocations of race hatred, presumably because I have some yearning to watch performance art. I don’t know. I also wonder, what happened to Tucker Carlson?
In any case, here’s the big picture I see here.
You don’t imagine you’ve got a big shocker story like this unless you really think you’ve got something big. And that tells me that there’s a big chunk of rightwing America living in a cocoon in which black people even talking about racism or race at all is ipso facto shocking.
I think Americans know Barack Obama is black.
As the Presidential candidates were prepping for tomorrow’s debate, Paul Ryan hit the trail:
Drudge has been going bonkers all afternoon about a game-changing “race” video of President Obama which Hannity is going to debut. Welp, here it is after the jump … Read More
President Obama now has leads of at least 5 percentage points in states totaling 288 electoral votes. He has leads of between 2 and 5 percentage points in states totaling an additional 44 electoral votes. But it’s that 288 number that stands out to me.
There’s a new poll out tonight of North Carolina from SurveyUSA. The topline shows President Obama with a 2 point lead over Mitt Romney, which is near where most recent polls have been. But among those voters who plan to cast early ballots, Obama has a 20 point lead.
Paul Ryan implied today that the key to solving the problem of the 47% is to get them jobs. Only the vast majority of those people either do have jobs or are retired. Video after the jump … Read More