Thursday, October 9, 2008

Sometimes, America doesn't make any sense

From the excellent George Packer article in the New Yorker:

At one point, he had doubted that Obama stood a chance in Glouster. “From Bob and Pete’s generation there are a lot of racists—not out-and-out, but I thought there was so much racism here that Obama’d never win.” Then he heard a man who freely used the “ ‘n’ word” declare his support for Obama: “That blew my theory out of the water.”

In an election between a black man and a white man, even the racists are undecided. Now that's a testament to the weakness of Republican policy proposals.

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