Soopermexican:
This election season has been marked by the proliferation of wars. No I don’t mean Libya, Egypt or Syria, I mean the War on Women, the War on Minorities, the war on this and that. Part of the reason for this is that the advent of social media and blogging, which give alternate voices a chance to challenge the mainstream media stranglehold over media narratives.
So now that we have passed the 100 days till election mark, where are we? Is Obama really doing so wonderfully, and Romney really doing so terribly? This is the narrative being cast over all of the events of this campaign season. While we have imperfect tools to measure the success of these wars, we do have them – poll results.
The WAR on WOMEN:
After announcing that Catholics would need to put their religious beliefs aside and follow a government mandate to provide birth control to their employees, the issue was re-fashioned as a conservative “war on women” via the liberal saint of Sandra Fluke. Her congressional testimony began the “Stop Rush” offensive by liberals, which they of course won by forcing many of his sponsors to abandon him. This was in February.
Then another battle flared up when erstwhile Obama adviser Hilary Rosen casually slighted Ann Romney by remarking that she had never worked a day in her life. This was in April. Entrenched twitter troops rushed out of the trenches headlong into no-man’s land and fought to a standstill. The media congratulated the Obamites on out-witting the conservatives.
So who won the War on Women? Obama garnered 56% of the women vote in 2008 to McCain’s 43% [via Forbes]. After his many victorious battles in the War on Women, Obama has victoriously shot UP the charts to… 46% among women [via Quinnipiac]. Damn your white male European notions of negative and positive, Obama is WINNING! By negative 10 points.
The BATTLE of HOT DOG HILL:
This was a slow-burning skirmish on the sidelines between a small garrison of liberals lobbing missiles at at a beleaguered Romney camp with “dog abuse” taunts. After months of reminding the Romney camp that he had once driven to Canada with the family dog on the roof, the Obamarmy was utterly routed by blogger reinforcements to the Romnites. Sergeant Jim Treacher used covert intelligence discovered in Obama’s autobiography about his canine culinary habits, arming his twitter mercenaries to turn the tide.
No polling available among registered voters who own dogs or eat them.
The RACECARD WARS for WHISPS [WHITE HISPANICS]
This theater of war has been less pronounced but has boiled over on occasion. One of the larger explosions was Obama’s announcement that he was orderingas much of the Dream Act to be implemented as possible without having to pass legislation. This was in June. Liberals from all points of the spectrum from left to far left applauded heartily and illegals cried with happiness. Meanwhile conservative Latinos bitterly drank their tequila in their Mexican wrestling masks, while muttering, “remember chimichangate!!“
Again we find that White European oppressor math lies to us, because after such a dazzling display of political warfare, support for Obama has droppedfrom his 2008 electoral rate of 67% among White Hispanics, or “Whisps” as I refer to them, me, us, to 59% [July Quinnipiac]. Someone find a math system where minus 8 points is a good thing!!
The RACECARD WARS for AFRICAN-AMERICANS
This theater of war is actually a part of a longer war of white Gringos on Blacks that has been waged since the white devil was let loose on this poor world. Within this election season, the largest battle was waged when general Al Sharpton called on black troops to lay down their reason and take up their pitchforks after the Trayvon Martin shooting. Obama did all he could to co-opt the event, even adopting Trayvon, and peddling hoodies for cash.
There was also a short friendly fire exchange between gay activists and religious black leaders when Obama was forced to come out of the closet and become the first gay president. African-Americans bristled under the comparison to the Civil Rights struggles of the 60s, and LGBT activists responded by photoshopping Ku Klux Klan hoods on African-Americans holding Chick-Fil-A bags.
Obama had an amazing 95% of the Black vote in 2008, and has been down as much as 87% among African-Americans, but the latest has him only down to90% [Gallup-April]. That’s certainly not a huge drop, but why is there a drop at all?