Will Gun-Totting, Churchgoing White Guys Pull the Lever for Barack Obama?

New York Times by Matt Bai | Oct. 19, 2008 (Interview)

Obama told me. “If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak! ... Who wants somebody like that?

“... there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism ...if people are just seeing me in sound bites, they’re not going to discover that. That’s why I say that some of that may have to happen after the election, when they get to ... Full Story »

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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 16, 2008

This opinion piece has no journalistic merit. It is a campaign ad spread over many pages, in one of the Democratic Party's main media outlets. There is no attempt at balance. It reads like a strategy paper prepared by a member of Obama's staff (and the autrhor may well be on his staff). There is nothing about how McCain and Palin have planned their campaign. Calling Obama "mainstream" (page 6: yes, it was hard, but I actually read that far). is pure propaganda; no independent reporter on politics would make that assertion.

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