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Why Ask Why

By Kleinheider Posted on October 20, 2008 at 7:56 am

Newscoma tells us what she thinks about those who think that Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama had something to do with race:

I think it’s narrow-minded to automatically dismiss that Powell endorsed Obama strictly on the race issue.

I’ve never seen him endorse Al Sharpton or Jessie Jackson, have you? So the race issue doesn’t wash with me in Powell’s decision. He has one vote, he told you who he was voting for and he told you why.

And that’s that.

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  1. bridgett writes
    October 20th, 2008 8:56 am

    Note, too, that Indiana is a battleground because white Republicans are defecting en masse to Obama:

    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/20/indiana/index.html

    The money quote:

    “Obama’s unexpected strength here cannot simply be attributed to the Chicago media market, which reaches only about 20 percent of the state, or a heavy African-American vote (Indiana is 86 percent white).

    Indiana — whose economy more revolves around manufacturing than that of any other state — has also lost 150,000 factory jobs since 2000, and its 6.2 percent unemployment rate in September was close to a 20-year high. “What has changed in Indiana,” says Dan Parker, the Democratic state chairman, “is that in manufacturing towns, people are voting less on social issues and more on the loss of jobs.”

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