Charles_Jaco's Blog

According to the poll, 56% of white Missourians support John McCain, while 35% of them support Barack Obama, the Democrat. In other words, McCain is winning by an amount commensurate with the difference in experience between the candidates, but a significant minority supports Obama and the contest remains competitive. But among African-Americans, it's a blowout--81% for Obama, 14% for McCain, and the actual election returns will show that those numbers significantly understate Obama's black support. (It's the "Bradley effect," where respondents who don't want to admit that they're voting for the candidate of their own race lie to pollsters.)

Why the disparity? Easy answer--racial polarization. Polls show that Obama is even carrying black Republicans by a large margin.

Odd how race is a factor in the last comment here.
Now, of course it has to do with perceived inexperience.
Okay, how do you explain George W. Bush being elected. He only got where he is by his Dad's influence. He doesn't have any qualification at all for the office of President of the United States. And his record shows it.

To me the issue is the health of this nation, and the party that will be best for the overall health is the Democrat Party, whose policies have for over a century been aimed at the betterment of ordinary people -- the great populace of our country.

Hey ,whats with jaco, we have had two black Mayors in St Louis that could not have been elected with out the help of white vote.

Freeman Bosley jr.1993 to 1997
Clarence harmon 197 to 2001

lets not forget white St Louis county and
County Executive Charlie Dooley landslide majority win 2006..

Could it be its because St louis and St louis
Co is Democrat majority as is Kansas City

The rest of the State is Republician majority

That would count for even vote for the two candidates numbers running for Governor.

If you just polled St louis,St louis Co and Kansas city what do you think the numbers would be for Obama ..
Come on Jaco we are not all that slow, but thats one reason I don`t like your reporting you do think we are..

All I was saying is the reason people vote the way they do is myriad. So they will vote ofr Obama because he is mixed heritage or they will vote for McCain because he is white. Or They will vote for the reason they just happen to agree with that persons policies.
Personally, I am going to vote for Barr because I happen to agree with him more than the big guys.
Sure, there are some blacks that blame whites for slavery. Then there are others that know what really happened. It is a fact though that whites owned blacks and some, for some reason unknown to me, can not let go of the past. Now, it was the Dutch that did the bulk of the slave trading from Africa. They saw a market and took advandtage of it.
They were as you say, cheaper than white indentured servants, a fancy way of saying slave, but more politically correct at that time. They did not know that they would never be able to buy their way out of servitude like they were promised.
Some seem to forget one big thing. It was legal at that time. We grew up and figured out it was wrong.
The thing that bugs me is race being brought up all the time in this election. Most of us are smart enough to look pass it. At least, I hope so.

To me the issue is not race, as much as having a man elected as our leader that found nothing wrong with staying with a church for more than 20 years that preached hatred against Whites.

He had to of heard this type of preaching many of times doing his attendance. There is no way it was just the one time that preacher had a sermon as the one we heard.

I've got to tell you Charles that political analyst you had on last night that stated race was the sole reason for the disparity in the governor vs presidential race is so pro-Obama it can't be hidden. First, Obama is as white as he is black, having a parent from each race, it's just more to his political advantage to be black right now. Second, I don't care if a person running for office is european-american, african-american, asian-american, native-american, man, woman or whatever, if I think they're the best choice, I vote for them. Each political office race is individual and I vote for who I think is the best person. In the presidental race, I don't trust Obama to be any good as president. He has no record and he changes his stand to fit the polls, so I won't vote for him. In the governor's race, I haven't decided yet. If your analyst would categorize me as I'm a racist because I vote for who I think is the best person, so be it, but I thought Fox 2 was a much better station than that and if I were the station manager, he'd be looking for a consulting job elsewhere.