Unkie Herb

The Obama-train is proving difficult to stop. As more folks hop on, it’s inertia grows. Will it doesn’t run out of fuel before November?

On a side note, there is a discrepancy between the demographics of the Dem race and the criticisms being tossed around.

Hilldog, McCain and media types love pointing to the “vacuousness” of Obama’s campaign. That he is short on policy, detail, and concrete elucidations of his ideas. I want to point out that it doesn’t take much more than an a fourth grade education to read policy proposals on websites. Yet, in answer to the jabs, Obama is responding with more detail in his speeches.

What is interesting is that these same critics mention repeatedly that Obama only does well with the well-educated, the college grad professionals. Hilldog, on the other hand, seems to resonate with the lower-income, blue collar crowd.

Maybe I’m wrong, or classist, or deluded, but isn’t there something backward there? Don’t the less educated, the less informed, the “I have no time to pay attention so I make up my mind from the headlines” voters tend to vote based on personality and character? I always thought it was us number crunching elitists who stuck to strength of policy proposals…

Perhaps, instead, those who have done their homework trust Obama’s ideas, along with his vision and character. Hillary’s supporters, speculatively, work with name recognition.

Anyone?

For an interesting, unexpected, and humbling clip of an Obama supporter explaining his decision, watch this.

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