Comments on: 95% white Iowa keeps backing Obama

By: Felicia Brown

Felicia Brown — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:36:24 +0000

Obama is going to need Iowa and many more states with a high percentage of whites if he is going to win. Palin was brought in for one reason and that is to appeal to those blue collared white woman. Hopefully voters will not make the mistake this time of putting someone in office they would rather " have a beer with", or in this case " eat moose stew with". We don't need another 4 years of Bush/Cheney!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:35:06 +0000

Jack,

I hope you realize why the people in Iowa support Obama. It's because he supports millions upon millions of dollars in subsidies for corn crops. You know, the subsidies that waste American dollars by supporting an innefficient fuel source, a subsidy that promotes mega-farms and push the small farmer out of business, subsidies that could be used to build wind turbines and hydroelectric power plants but instead allow fields to lie fallow. Does it matter that they are white!? No it matters that Obama has promised to take money from everyone else and give it to the people of Iowa, just like he is going to give money to every person in every state. Jack, take your democrat commrads and please go figure out how Obama is going to pay for his massive corn subsidies and everything else and then start throwing up statistics.

By: Bobby D. Jones

Bobby D. Jones — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:34:24 +0000

It doesn't matter at all that the state is 95% white. Iowa is a blue state, and Obama will receive those electoral votes. Even as a Republican, I am proud of what Sen. Obama is symbolizing – that our country will look past race and color to elect, whom they believe, the best man for the job.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:34:16 +0000

I don't think race is truly an issue in this race as much as most people would like to believe. The real issue for the Republicans is whether they believe in a VP pick with the experience of running a town of 6,000 people and a state with the population of the city of San Diego. Is Governor Palin the person Americans want as the face of the United States in front of international leaders? I don't think a person with such a limited educational background is as qualified as as one with say a law degree to tackle tough decisions that require sophisticated analytical skills and an in-depth knowledge of the inner workings of the legal and political system.
In short, I don't believe that many educated and thinking Americans want a moose hunting undereducated hockey mom evangelical, parading around the globe as the ambassador of the great American political system.

Alexandra,
Los Angeles, CA

By: Chelle B

Chelle B — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:34:12 +0000

Jack-

Sometimes it takes a small group of progressive White people to change the inertia of fear. These people obviously are sick and tired of the American perpetuation White superiority, particularly when mediocrity is all we've been given. Their support of Obama represents a collective who's ready to elect a president who can articulate the needs of our country and regain our honor abroad. If Obama was White I am most certain that they would support him just the same. I would.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:34:08 +0000

I think the republicans have frequently made light of Senator Obama as being all flash. The seem to fail to realize that he build his network of supporters like a foot soldier, one at a time in small towns and rural states where no body else would bother to campaign, where all the self assured, entitled politicians wouldn't bother to go, figuring, in the last month before the election, they'd just bombard that whole region with an air attack and beam in tons of flashy ads via satelite and pick up enough of the dazed and frightened population to secure a cushy job for 4 years. Now Republicans repeatedly mock the strength of his following as if it is some cult or fad, and they think they can just introduce some new fresh face and everyone will gravitate toward her in a dazed confusion or a curiousity. It's not true. Obama has a following because he worked for it, and they would have to go back 19 months and start their work again, more thoroughly this time, to really stand a chance to compeat for those votes.

By: Richard from Englewood, NJ

Richard from Englewood, NJ — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:34:06 +0000

Don't get so focused on race that you forget geography. Obama is a Chicagoan. He spent years in the Illinois State Senate. Iowa is right next door. Barack and Michelle Obama have the Midwestern values of an Illinois couple. Obama knows the values of Midwesterners, and knows how to relate to them. Of course Iowa would connect with him.

The media acts as if Obama/Biden is an Eastern ticket. It isn't: it's a MIDWESTERNER and an Easterner.

By: Abel P. Ochoa

Abel P. Ochoa — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:34:05 +0000

It’s very important, Jack. The Iowa voters are the reason I started supporting Obama. I give them full credit because I feel that they got to know him better than voters from any other state except maybe the voters from Illinois. I like Obama because he wants to discuss the real issues including alternative energy, our infrastructure, a GI Bill, the immorality of invading Iraq, education, the separation of Church and State, our Health rights, our union rights, Social Security Fairness Act and our Farm Bill.

By: Wes

Wes — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:34:04 +0000

I do think Iowa is important in this race. Iowa is a middle-of-the-country state. It's an agriculture state. It's well-educated, having several large universities. It is a state that clearly takes its politics seriously. Basically, it's a good test case. And seeing that Barack Obama can do well there says a lot. It shows he is a candidate that can reach groups other than black people and die-hard democrats.

By: Marti - Denver, Colorado

Marti - Denver, Colorado — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:34:04 +0000

Iowa's support of Obama reveals the confidence people are inspired to place in him due to the evident "content of his character." Obama's positions regarding the issues facing our nation and world are intelligent, moral, compassionate, and realistic. We, as a nation, are better than the leadership we've received the last eight years. He offers the better leadership we all aspire to – and Iowa knows it.