Clinton as the First Black President. Toni Morrison Clinton as the first black president New Yorker, October 1998 Thanks to the papers, we know what the columnists think. Thanks to round-the-clock cable, we know what the ex-prosecutors, the right-wing blondes, the teletropic law professors, and the disgraced political consultants think. This summer, my plan was to do very selective radio listening, read no newspapers or news magazines, and leave my television screen profoundly, mercifully blank. I hoped to avoid the spectacle I was sure would be mounted, fearing that at any minute I might have to witness ex-Presidential friends selling that friendship for the higher salaries of broadcast journalism; anticipating the nausea that might rise when quaking Democrats took firm positions on or over the fence in case the polls changed.
I wish that the effluvia did add up to a story of adultery. Still, it is clear that this is not a narrative of adultery or even of its consequences for the families involved. We meet tonight. Onpoint_0214_charles-murray. Charles Murray does it again. I argued a few weeks ago that Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum might be able to believe they’re not singling out black people, or “blah” people, when they rail against food stamps and government “dependency” on the campaign trail. Yes, Republicans have long used not just dog whistles but foghorns to tell white working- and middle-class voters that welfare programs only support lazy, undeserving African-Americans. Ronald Reagan gave us those iconic Cadillac-driving “welfare queens” and “young bucks” using food stamps to buy T-bone steaks. Gingrich is certainly playing on that long history with his remarks. (It’s funny how our first “food stamp president” also happens to be black.)
But increasingly the right wing argues that government programs have created a dangerously expanding lower class that includes white people, too. Murray, of course, has said all of these things about black people before. And that’s because they are. In Romney's Campaign, What's Race Got to Do With It? Jon Moe/Associated PressMitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate, with his extended family in 2007. Mitt Romney may not have officially clinched the Republican nomination, but his victory has never really been in doubt.
Nor has his viability in November: the most fanatical Tea Partiers are not about to withhold their votes and risk allowing President Obama to be re-elected. Pundits have already begun the endless debate over whether Mr. Romney’s wealth and religion are hindrances or assets. But there has yet to be any discussion over the one quality that has subtly fueled his candidacy thus far and could well put him over the top in the fall: his race. Of course, I’m not talking about a strict count of melanin density. In this way, Mr. Yes, since 1978 the church has allowed blacks to become priests. It’s true that Mr. Rick Santorum is an Italian-American Catholic, while Jon Huntsman, though a Mormon himself, wears his cosmopolitanism too brazenly. Contrast that with Mr. Mr. The battle for white men - Lois Romano. BURLINGTON, Iowa — They arrived here in droves in the pouring rain to hear Vice President Joe Biden, an ocean of white guys.
There were men in overalls and some in suits, hardcore Democrats and wavering Republicans, undecideds and first-time voters, the unemployed and the angry. After decades of taking a back seat to the growing voting demographics of women and Latinos, middle-class white men are finding themselves front and center again. They are being intensely targeted and wooed by the left and right, as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney fight to hold together their fragile coalitions and lay claim to the ever-shrinking slice of uncertain voters.
Continue Reading POLITICO Live: On Congress “White men are significant and they are in play,” says Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, who for 30 years has closely tracked the political migration patterns of white working-class men. (Also on POLITICO: 10 presidential debate questions) Now, things could be shifting again. L’entre-deux-France dans l’œil de la Gauche populaire.