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		<title>By: Travis Ampi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Travis Ampi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#039;s put this &quot;whites don&#039;t support Obama&quot; thing to rest once and for all:

Barack Obama&#039;s current level of support among white voters in a head-to-head matchup against John McCain is no worse than John Kerry&#039;s margin of support among whites against George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.  Ask Gallup:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/107110/Obamas-Support-Similar-Kerrys-2004.aspx

And these numbers are likely to expand after Hillary drops out and starts campaigning for Obama, boosting his numbers with women and white voters who have pulled for her recently.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s put this &#8220;whites don&#8217;t support Obama&#8221; thing to rest once and for all:</p>
<p>Barack Obama&#8217;s current level of support among white voters in a head-to-head matchup against John McCain is no worse than John Kerry&#8217;s margin of support among whites against George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.  Ask Gallup:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/107110/Obamas-Support-Similar-Kerrys-2004.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.gallup.com/poll/107110/Obamas-Support-Similar-Kerrys-2004.aspx</a></p>
<p>And these numbers are likely to expand after Hillary drops out and starts campaigning for Obama, boosting his numbers with women and white voters who have pulled for her recently.</p>
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		<title>By: Jerry Carroll</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jerry Carroll</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a whiff of fascism in Mr. Lever&#039;s evident feeling that the votes of the better educated somehow should be given more weight than those of the &quot;lower middle class,&quot; by which he means the lower class or, as the English would say, the lower orders. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), age and citizenship are the only limits we place on the franchise. I agree it would be ever so much tidier to remove the great unwashed from the equation, but they might have some theoretical objections to this. So Hillary tailors her remarks and campaign according to her audience. What is new or wrong about this? Mr. Lever apparently prefers the high-flown, flowery and content-free rhetoric of BO. He&#039;s welcome to his taste, but with the understanding it&#039;s not for everyone. As for the Ragin&#039; Rev, why shouldn&#039;t he be an issue? Because black racism and anti-Americanism should be ignored when it&#039;s inconvenient, as BO and Mr. Lever now find it? I don&#039;t kinow what lofty peak he lives on, but Mr. Lever ought to descend from time to time and rub shoulders with the common folk.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a whiff of fascism in Mr. Lever&#8217;s evident feeling that the votes of the better educated somehow should be given more weight than those of the &#8220;lower middle class,&#8221; by which he means the lower class or, as the English would say, the lower orders. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), age and citizenship are the only limits we place on the franchise. I agree it would be ever so much tidier to remove the great unwashed from the equation, but they might have some theoretical objections to this. So Hillary tailors her remarks and campaign according to her audience. What is new or wrong about this? Mr. Lever apparently prefers the high-flown, flowery and content-free rhetoric of BO. He&#8217;s welcome to his taste, but with the understanding it&#8217;s not for everyone. As for the Ragin&#8217; Rev, why shouldn&#8217;t he be an issue? Because black racism and anti-Americanism should be ignored when it&#8217;s inconvenient, as BO and Mr. Lever now find it? I don&#8217;t kinow what lofty peak he lives on, but Mr. Lever ought to descend from time to time and rub shoulders with the common folk.</p>
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		<title>By: Bob Lever</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Lever</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think you may have misunderstood me. My main point, is that most polls show that Obama still has the edge amongst the white middle and upper class voters, while having difficulties with lower middle class. Why is this the case?

What if you were running for office, would you be proud that the generally less educated favored you!? 

Hillary is only gaining ground with a well crafty campaign machine which draws heavily on demographic research. She said she &#039;doesn&#039;t trust economists&#039; in regions where the majority makes under 40k a year and never too a class in economics. She exploits the connection between Barack Obama and his &quot;angry black preacher&quot; in regions where latent racism still exists. She uses the &quot;fear&quot; pitch in regions where people still think Osama bin Laden is a threat to the U.S. Her message is what her polling tells her is the message to use. 

She does not have more experience than Barack Obama. He has 4 more years of legislative experience, and his record in the Illinois Senate and the U.S Senate outshines her. I appeal to you to do research again, compare the two. here is just one article on Barack Obama, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010303303.html but there are many more.

The Clinton machine is formidable, and Hillary has proven she will do and say anything to get a vote. Which in the end means she is fueling the same divisive politics we had when her husband was in office. And no, the economy won&#039;t get better, that was due to cheap oil, the internet, greenspan, and was pre-mass exodus of U.S. jobs (no thanks at all to Bill Clinton).]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think you may have misunderstood me. My main point, is that most polls show that Obama still has the edge amongst the white middle and upper class voters, while having difficulties with lower middle class. Why is this the case?</p>
<p>What if you were running for office, would you be proud that the generally less educated favored you!? </p>
<p>Hillary is only gaining ground with a well crafty campaign machine which draws heavily on demographic research. She said she &#8216;doesn&#8217;t trust economists&#8217; in regions where the majority makes under 40k a year and never too a class in economics. She exploits the connection between Barack Obama and his &#8220;angry black preacher&#8221; in regions where latent racism still exists. She uses the &#8220;fear&#8221; pitch in regions where people still think Osama bin Laden is a threat to the U.S. Her message is what her polling tells her is the message to use. </p>
<p>She does not have more experience than Barack Obama. He has 4 more years of legislative experience, and his record in the Illinois Senate and the U.S Senate outshines her. I appeal to you to do research again, compare the two. here is just one article on Barack Obama, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010303303.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010303303.html</a> but there are many more.</p>
<p>The Clinton machine is formidable, and Hillary has proven she will do and say anything to get a vote. Which in the end means she is fueling the same divisive politics we had when her husband was in office. And no, the economy won&#8217;t get better, that was due to cheap oil, the internet, greenspan, and was pre-mass exodus of U.S. jobs (no thanks at all to Bill Clinton).</p>
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		<title>By: D Adam</title>
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		<dc:creator>D Adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 23:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/supporthillary/

about: *&quot;latent racism. Regarding the race issue: most polls show that Barack Obama edges out Hillary Clinton amongst middle-class (and upper-class) whites, while Clinton trounces Obama with lower-class whites. Which essentially says that the typically less educated, less sophisticated lower-class whites are duped by the Clinton&#039;s &quot;say anything to get elected&quot; propaganda.&quot;*

This text is from so called USA made man &quot;educated&quot;  screaming and jumping when an orator blow his nose... or need a brake to eat his breakfast... 
Bob, I am sure you did not get your PHD at Oxford and you are a &quot;latent racism&quot;.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/supporthillary/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/supporthillary/</a></p>
<p>about: *&#8221;latent racism. Regarding the race issue: most polls show that Barack Obama edges out Hillary Clinton amongst middle-class (and upper-class) whites, while Clinton trounces Obama with lower-class whites. Which essentially says that the typically less educated, less sophisticated lower-class whites are duped by the Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;say anything to get elected&#8221; propaganda.&#8221;*</p>
<p>This text is from so called USA made man &#8220;educated&#8221;  screaming and jumping when an orator blow his nose&#8230; or need a brake to eat his breakfast&#8230;<br />
Bob, I am sure you did not get your PHD at Oxford and you are a &#8220;latent racism&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: Rod Gallegos</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rod Gallegos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 05:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[i don&#039;t believe that mr. lever was saying that in the least.  he merely stated what the data has shown and expressed a theory of voting behavior based on that data.  to diminish senator obama by likening him to an oratorical version of the early beatles does little to further the discussion, nor does it make a compelling case for hillary &quot;populist-nonsense-idea-of-the-week&quot; clinton.  i don&#039;t think lever said anything about racism in the first place - he said that obama actually does well among middle-class whites.  i understood that the indictment was of less-educated, easily duped voters who think that repealing the gas tax and other populist BS is actually good policy.

i&#039;ll give you this - george w. bush is the most effective cautionary tale about putting an unqualified, untested person into the white house.  but i&#039;d ask this: what has hillary DONE?  really?  what has SHE done on her own, outside of her husband&#039;s career?  if you have trouble answering that question, then i&#039;d think twice about giving her the vote based on &quot;experience&quot;.  i&#039;m sorry, but I just can&#039;t bring myself to believe that this country can only come up with two families to occupy the white house over the course of 24 years.  at best it&#039;s nepotism.  at worst, it&#039;s a derangement of our democracy.

nevertheless, if obama wants to &quot;make his rhetoric real,&quot; he&#039;s going to need a legitimate roadmap for how he&#039;s going to &quot;change washington&quot;.  talking about it isn&#039;t going to do a thing, and lofty promises aren&#039;t going to deliver ohio and florida in november.  he&#039;s obviously a cerebral guy, so after locking up the nomination he should take some time off, grab a pen and a pad of paper, and get creative about how to deliver the goods he&#039;s promising.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i don&#8217;t believe that mr. lever was saying that in the least.  he merely stated what the data has shown and expressed a theory of voting behavior based on that data.  to diminish senator obama by likening him to an oratorical version of the early beatles does little to further the discussion, nor does it make a compelling case for hillary &#8220;populist-nonsense-idea-of-the-week&#8221; clinton.  i don&#8217;t think lever said anything about racism in the first place &#8211; he said that obama actually does well among middle-class whites.  i understood that the indictment was of less-educated, easily duped voters who think that repealing the gas tax and other populist BS is actually good policy.</p>
<p>i&#8217;ll give you this &#8211; george w. bush is the most effective cautionary tale about putting an unqualified, untested person into the white house.  but i&#8217;d ask this: what has hillary DONE?  really?  what has SHE done on her own, outside of her husband&#8217;s career?  if you have trouble answering that question, then i&#8217;d think twice about giving her the vote based on &#8220;experience&#8221;.  i&#8217;m sorry, but I just can&#8217;t bring myself to believe that this country can only come up with two families to occupy the white house over the course of 24 years.  at best it&#8217;s nepotism.  at worst, it&#8217;s a derangement of our democracy.</p>
<p>nevertheless, if obama wants to &#8220;make his rhetoric real,&#8221; he&#8217;s going to need a legitimate roadmap for how he&#8217;s going to &#8220;change washington&#8221;.  talking about it isn&#8217;t going to do a thing, and lofty promises aren&#8217;t going to deliver ohio and florida in november.  he&#8217;s obviously a cerebral guy, so after locking up the nomination he should take some time off, grab a pen and a pad of paper, and get creative about how to deliver the goods he&#8217;s promising.</p>
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		<title>By: Jerry Carroll</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jerry Carroll</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 22:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suggestions like those of Mr. Lever that you&#039;re an ignorant racist if you vote for anyone other than BO demonstrate why the left will never be able to put one of its own in the White House. There are a host of reasons not to entrust the nation&#039;s highest office to this untried freshman senator who to this point has demonstrated only that can give a speech that makes impressionable young ladies faint.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suggestions like those of Mr. Lever that you&#8217;re an ignorant racist if you vote for anyone other than BO demonstrate why the left will never be able to put one of its own in the White House. There are a host of reasons not to entrust the nation&#8217;s highest office to this untried freshman senator who to this point has demonstrated only that can give a speech that makes impressionable young ladies faint.</p>
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		<title>By: Bob Lever</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Lever</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting column. Indeed, those that are being foreclosed upon and who lose their jobs, will mostly likely respond in knee-jerk fashion, and may even go for hillary&#039;s latest band-aid of repealing the gas tax, or with latent racism. Regarding the race issue:  most polls show that Barack Obama edges out Hillary Clinton amongst middle-class (and upper-class) whites, while Clinton trounces Obama with lower-class whites. Which essentially says that the typically less educated, less sophisticated lower-class whites are duped by the Clinton&#039;s &quot;say anything to get elected&quot; propaganda.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting column. Indeed, those that are being foreclosed upon and who lose their jobs, will mostly likely respond in knee-jerk fashion, and may even go for hillary&#8217;s latest band-aid of repealing the gas tax, or with latent racism. Regarding the race issue:  most polls show that Barack Obama edges out Hillary Clinton amongst middle-class (and upper-class) whites, while Clinton trounces Obama with lower-class whites. Which essentially says that the typically less educated, less sophisticated lower-class whites are duped by the Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;say anything to get elected&#8221; propaganda.</p>
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