Elections

[cema]

I think many Americans elected BO because he is black. In the past people could have voted for a black man despite his color, and it is progress (and before that would not or could not vote for blacks etc). But when will people ignore the color altogether? That will be something.

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[cema.livejournal.com]

I am not sure at all. I remember how they all rose up when McCain mentioned his service (in a speech about the Woodstock rock festival: "I could not be there, I was tied up at the time"), and then I thought: aha, here he is. And indeed there he was.

Of course I may be mistaken about the mechanism that worked there.