Wednesday, February 6, 2008

California Exit Polls

Here's some analysis in which I accuse a broad group of people of racism in a way that is probably racist. Enjoy.

Latino Vote: 69% Hillary 29% Obama

Can someone please give me a real explanation of this? It is obviously not related to issues.

I don't think it's simple racism. Is it? Anecdotally, at least judging from people in NY, I would say that it's because Latino's openly want to elect Bill Clinton again (perhaps partially because the immigrants among them have a higher tolerance for insanity and corruption in politics than the rest of us). Or is it possible that in America, in 2008, there is actually not enough news and punditry (at least in other languages)? This would explain why, as a group, Latinos seem to have been much more susceptible to some of the more unbelievable memes that have been spread, like that Obama is running on the Al Qaeda ticket. Or, broadly, are Latino family values too good? Whereas I would have no trouble dressing down any family member who planned to vote for Hillary for a bad reason, does a Hispanic kid just keep his mouth shut and let his parents make their own dumb mistakes? Or, is it that, with any recent immigrants, Obama's message just doesn't resonate, because rather than thinking that America has been broken and beaten to a bloody pulp the way I do, they think it's still pretty good?

What's the deal?

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