The always reliably crazy Wall Street Journal opinion page reassures its nervous audience that they have nothing to fear, because white people just don't like that Barack Obama fellow (psst! Despite his attempt to pretend to the contrary, he is really a Negro!):
But his victory in North Carolina depended heavily on his overwhelming (91%) share of the black vote, which made up about a third of the primary electorate. Mrs. Clinton won 61% of white Democrats in North Carolina, according to the exit polls, and 65% of white Democrats in Indiana. Mrs. Clinton also broke even among independents. Clearly Mr. Obama's early promise of a transracial, postpartisan coalition has dimmed as the campaign has progressed and voters have learned more about him.
Connoisseurs will savor that "clearly"; nice try, fellas -- that's a GOP desideratum, not a self-evident truth, by any stretch of the imagination.
It's more than a little silly to think that white Democrats as a bloc are going to break for McCain over Obama simply because of Rev. Wright. Such an assumption suggests that Democratic white voters are racist morons, for one thing. And thus such an assumption is itself pretty racist. Why does the Wall Street Journal opinion page hate white people? Bigots. Why, it's like Louis Farrakhan is running the place nowadays; I just knew letting Rupert Murdoch take over would lead to trouble...
Ha ha. That's just a joke. The WSJ doesn't hate white people, clearly. They just hate working class white people, the group that is usually specifically singled out as the real playa-hatas. These guys, you know, they like to drink! They like their sports! They hate elitists with their lattes and their educations! And these stereotypes are not themselves condescending at all!
Honestly. To listen to Wingnutta, and to the down-to-earth Not at All Elitist gasbags like Tim Russert and Chris Matthews, you'd think that Obama has very limited choices for his vice-presidential pick if he wants to appeal to this white working class demographic, and they boil down to these:
