Dispatch from New York City - 7:00P EST
2008 has just begun and the Media is already on a roll. They are all vying for the best why Hillary won New Hampshire theory. The prize here goes to the Chris Matthews Show and the Racist Theory to explain the lousy exit polls. Of course Chris Matthews has long been a critic of Senator Clinton and was writing her off after Iowa. On his Tuesday show Chris stated “This is the night the night that could be the end of a Presidential frontrunner’s candidacy”. Wishful thinking and as can be imagined Chris was not only stunned later that night but finally driven to madness. His show on Wednesday night was the most hilarious episode yet. Imagine grown educated men and one woman sitting around expounding the Racist Theory of Hillary’s win.
The Racist Theory of winning an election or losing one goes something like this:
An exit pollster asks a person who they voted for and the racist after casting a vote for Hillary would answer Obama thereby creating an exit poll showing Obama in the lead.
What’s wrong with this picture? Number one, racists generally don’t tend to be likely to vote for women. Number two, a good percentage of New Hampshire voters would had to have lied to the exit pollsters to skew the poll so favorably in Obama’s direction. Number three, if New Hampshire has so many racists why didn’t John Edwards do better in the primary? Number four, Liberal Democrats that tend to be the biggest factor in Democratic Primary Elections don’t usually fall into the racist category.
Leaving us with the problem of what really happened in New Hampshire. The most important piece of this puzzle is ‘Women’. Women voted by a far larger percentage for Hillary than anyone imagined. The moment in the Saturday night debate where Obama stumbled was on the question of being 'likable'. When he told Hillary she was 'likable enough' in a totally insincere manner, women noticed it. Although some would disagree for me it was a defining moment in New Hampshire followed by the supposed Hillary breakdown. The media played that scene over and over casting Hillary as weak woman breaking down under pressure being totally callous of her feelings. Nothing could have provided the fuel for the herricane that followed like these two moments. The second piece of the puzzle is the Independent vote. This group makes up more than forty percent of the voters in New Hampshire. Who did they vote for? Obama was counting on their support to put him over the top. However competing for these Independents was John McCain. I’d like to see a breakdown of this vote. Finally we have the youth vote (18-30) which unlike Iowa was split with only the youngest voters sticking with Obama the rest going to Hillary.
What is the reason for the bad exit polls? Simply ‘Garbage in Garbage Out’ nothing more nothing less! To say New Hampshire voters are lying racists is to say the Iowa voters are lying sexists. In fact from now on if Obama wins a state we know it’s because of rampant ‘Sexism’ if Hillary wins it’s rampant ‘Racism’. Such is the logic of the Media Pundits. It will be interesting to see what my home state, New York, turns out to be! The Gold medal for the most ludicrous pundit of the Racist Theory has to go to Michael Eric Dyson for his comment that the women who voted for Hillary in New Hampshire were Racists.
I have to decide if I am a racist or a sexist in the New York Primary next month. Maybe I’ll decide to be both a racist and a sexist by voting for John Edwards! HMMM
