USA Presidential Race

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Garcia" <johngar at gmail.com>
To: "Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion" <brin-l at mccmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: USA Presidential Race


> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Alberto Monteiro <albmont at centroin.com.br>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> John Garcia wrote:
>> >
>> > Now that it looks like it's McCain vs. Obama (listed in alphabetical
>> > order) I was wondering what you all think of this matchup. I'm 
>> > especially
>> > interested in what
>> > our friends from outside of the USA think.
>> >
>> Here in Brazil it seems that McCain will easily win, and that Obama
>> is like a fringe candidate, just there to "prove" that Dems aren't
>> racist bigots (and Hillary was there just to "prove" the non-sexism).
>>
>> Alberto Monteiro
>>
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>
> Hmmm.....
> That's interesting. Last summer, someone asked me who I thought would be 
> the
> next President and I replied
> "Some rich white guy". Now that I've heard Obama, I do think that he has a
> very good chance of being elected.
> Just how many voters will either vote for McCain or stay home is unknown.
> Not very many people are willing to give
> what may be seen as a "racist" answer to pollsters.
> Having said that, Obama may have attracted enough new voters to offset the
> bigots.
> It'll be something to watch.
>
In 2004 I posted about this new guy named Barack Obama, something about how 
he was an up and comer and the kind of guy I wanted to be President. (At 
least I know I've been saying all that in a lot of places throughout the 
last 4 years.)
It's in the archives somewhere.


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