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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
What is really sad is that most of todays newspaper have said that Obama won due to his race.
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I think you're misinterpreting the point. He won because he managed to build a support base in which minority voters (african americans, asians and Latinos) and woman supported him overwhelmingly. The Democratic Party, or just Obama, appealed to minorities in the way the Republicans didn't. The Republicans pretty much intentionally ignored these groups thinking they could win an election by appealing to white men, hence the absurd comments about rape and abortion as well as their harsh rhetoric on immigration.
This was a question of the Democrats appealing to minorities not Obama being black (Latinos, for one, have no real reason to have such a racial preference there).