The Elephant in the Room

It's been several days since Super-Duper-for-the-Seventeenth-Time-Tuesday, and something has been bothering me since. One exit poll in particular stuck out like gangsta rapper at a klan rally. Among poor, and lower middle-class, undereducated white voters in Pennsylvania, Hillary took in excess of six in ten votes. Of those voters, between 20% and 30% indicated that race was a major factor in their decision to vote for Clinton.

Several weeks ago, Geraldine Ferraro made the statement that the only reason that Barack Obama has made it as far as he has is because he his black. Geraldine Ferraro is an idiot. If she truly believes that it is some sort of advantage to be a black man running for public office in the United States of America she is at best, not paying attention, and at worst, not telling the truth. Are there people in this country who are casting their votes for Obama because they believe an Obama presidency will make an undeniable statement of America's progress against it's most vexing perpetual problem? I'm sure there are. But Pennsylvania showed us that there simply are not enough of those people to cancel out the amount of voters who refuse to vote for him because he is not white.

More troubling is the amount of influence those voters have over the political process. Clinton's pitch to the remaining uncommitted super delegates is that they should overturn the results of the primary process and give her the nomination because she can get democratic votes that Obama has no chance of capturing. In other words, the ignorant poor white racist vote is essential to winning the presidency, and she is the candidate of the ignorant poor white racist.

Isn't that nice. When did the inmates gain control of the asylum? Why is it that a contest between two qualified, ivy league-educated candidates, the election can be decided by individuals with the mental maturity of neanderthals. Either way this primary turns out, this protracted campaign has done/is doing what may be irreparable damage to the democratic party. The current president is the proud owner of some of the lowest approval ratings in the history of approval ratings, and the Republican Party nominee can't raise any money from his own party faithful. In this election season the Democrats should be able to run a donkey in pants against their opponents and defeat them. But all this campaign garbage is opening the window wide enough to march an elephant through it.