Posted by
Cindy of TX on Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:53:13 PM
Susan Estrich's column, "The Final Days", released today, is a huge disappointment, even and especially from her. Normally, I prefer Susan Estrich as a Democrat pundit, over, say, Bob Beckel, if push comes to shove. I hate to recommend that you read this column, but in the interest of understanding where the Democrats are going "just in case" they lose this election, I'm doing just that. Can she really believe that an Obama loss on Tuesday can ONLY be explained by one thing: race? Yes. Indeed. Here's the crux of the column:
There is only one reason the polls could be this wrong. There is only one reason a contest that is not even close, that is somewhere between clobbered and landslide, could wind up with the other guy on top. Every pollster in America is not incompetent. Every pollster in America is not failing in precisely the same way when it comes to pulling a sample, screening for voters and assigning weights to the various groups.
The only way all these polls could be that far off is if people are lying in numbers never before seen in American politics.
Why would they do that?
You tell me it has nothing to do with race. I'll laugh. What else could it possibly be?
Talk about a blind spot! Susan, come on! You tell me it has nothing to do with media bias and control of information. I'll laugh.
You are just another victim of Obama's Emperor's New Clothes - oops, No Clothes - media strategy, and you fell for it. I don't blame you for being outraged. You should be. I don't blame you for feeling duped. You have been. You've been duped by your party, more than once. I have to hand it to you, though - you're loyal. Hey, maybe it's time to take a good hard look at what is going on around you. Obama is not a black candidate, in the true sense of what most Americans would consider a black candidate. He is a bi-racial candidate; he is part Kenyan and part Caucasian. This election is NOT a referendum on race relations in America. It is, as so many Democrat pundits have repeated time and time again, a referendum on the economy, on national security, and judgment. That's all. Anything else, Ms. Estrich, is a shameless attempt to ignite racial hatred and throw it after the class warfare your party has already done its best to invent and use to play upon the base fears of the most vulnerable among us.
One question: Ms. Estrich, which party has made the most mention of race in the presidential election campaign? Thank you for playing.