Relswick,
Have you even for a second considered the idea that perhaps other people are not bigots and might just vote against a black man or even a woman because of issues other than skin colour or gender?
On the other hand, your entire article is based on the candidate's skin colour and gender, resulting in the conclusion that the woman will probably win because women are a larger minority than blacks. (In reality, women are a majority because they live longer).
As for the black minority, I don't know the numbers. Are there fewer of them than of other minorities? Are they targeted by racists more often than other minorities? Do racists among them target other minorities less often than racists among other minorities or the majority target blacks? All these questions are important if yours are.
As to Obama, there is also too much intelligence in your country and people might just vote against him because he is an idiot. John Edwards is, in my view, an ambulance chaser and a lawyer who goes after doctors who really have enough problems (turns out medicine is not easy). He is also a typical example of an evil corporate lawyer. It is because of people like him that doctors will rather not try to help difficult patients because they have to fear punishment for trying.
The fact that he is also a Democrat is, for me, no reason to vote for him. It's rather a reason not to vote for other, more useful, Democrats.
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This country is no way near ready for someone that follows even the most moderate tenents of the Qu'ran
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Not while so many followers of the Quran try to destroy America, yes.
I see you also haven't researched the spam. (It's not true.)
Well, I hope the Republicans win again.
And I can give you three reasons:
1. Apart from the crazy uncle the Republican candidates do not favour a quick withdrawal from Iraq. And none of them believe that Iraqis will simply stop killing each other just because there are no American troops around. The country has been at war with its neighbours and its local minorities (and the Shiite majority) for many decades. Obama cannot "end" that war, and if he thinks he can, he is an idiot.
2. None of the Republican candidates have many vocal supporters that make their race or gender an issue. I do not support the idea that race or gender are an issue when it comes to politics and leadership. Democrats do and hence I wouldn't vote for one.
3. Most of the Republican candidates have more experience than Obama and a better track record than Hillary (who managed to marry well but has not actually DONE anything).
But if the majority/minority issue is important to you, you should support Lieberman, who is, unfortunately, not running this time. He is a Jew (a smaller ethnic minority than blacks), a man (the minority gender), and a Democrat (the party who supports minorities, I hear).
If that is important to you.
For me experience, profession, political positions, and religion counts. I prefer experienced politicians over inexperienced politicians, non-lawyers over lawyers, conservatives and moderate socialists over raving liberals, fascists, and communists, and Christians, Jews, orthodox Muslims*, non-militant atheists, Zoroastrians, and followers of Indian religions over today's standard Muslims and militant atheists.
*My definition of an "orthodox Muslim" is a Muslim who holds belief in Allah and the Quran over his own or his ethnic group's interests. An Arab nationalist is not an orthodox Muslim, neither are Wahabis and Khomeinists.
