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Understanding “Real America”
Matthew Yglesias —
... Nate Silver provides some statistical analysis of what distinguishes Sarah Palin’s real America from the fake America where the rest of us live. Basically, real America has more non-Hispanic whites. ...
The Right Hates America
The Mahablog —
Sarah Palin thinks some parts of America are not the “real” America. A McCain staffer says northern Virginia is not “real” Virginia. I’m sure that’s going to go over well with northern Virginia voters. See also Marc Ambinder, “McCain’s Cosmological Breakthrough: Unreality Is Expanding.” Hysterical.
John McCain thinks tax cuts for the middle class amount to “welfare.” A congresswoman thinks Americans are sending un-Americans to Congress.
In St. Louis, 100,000 people show up for ...
Observations from a Ersatz(?) American
The Republic of T. —
... to represent the ”real America.” And the blue states have a right to ask why, at a time when the federal government has plunged back into deficit, when essential domestic programs are under assault, a small minority of heavily subsidized Americans should feel that they are entitled to even more aid.
So, who cares about us? We’re not the “real America.”
What do we know about the “real America”? It’s overwhelmingly white.
Since her coming out in Dayton, Ohio on August, 29th, ...
Friday McBush/McSame Bashing (Home Stretch Edition)
Discourse.net —
... Obama
Sunday
NYT, Former Secretary of State Powell Backs Obama
See the video
NYT, Obama Raises More Than $150 Million in September
Saturday
Crooks & Liars, The McCain Plan for Health Insecurity
Karen Tumulty, TIME, When You Know You Are Losing
Nate Silver, Fivethirtyeight.com, “Real” America Looks Different to Palin, Obama
The Washington Note, ...
Terrance Heath: Observations From an Ersatz American
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The heartland has no special claim to represent the ''real America.'' And the blue states have a right to ask why, at a time when the federal government has plunged back into deficit, when essential domestic programs are under assault, a small minority of heavily subsidized Americans should feel that they are entitled to even more aid.
So, who cares about us? We're not the "real America."
What do we know about the "real America"? It's overwhelmingly white.
Since her coming out in Dayton, Ohio on August, ...
A one man "Southern Strategy"
Nitpicker —
For all the McCain campaign's talk last week about how they're supported "real America"--and real Americans like Sam "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher--when I would suggest to my Republican friends that it was not-so-subtle coded language for "white people," an attempt to "otherize" Obama and churn up racial fears, my friends would get very angry with me and suggest I was being paranoid. ...
All Hail New York
I Am TRex —
... living on the west coast and she said, “Oh, honey, listen. If I’m trapped under 30,000 pounds of concrete, breathing through a straw, hanging on for dear life, I wanna hear some Brooklyn and Jersey accents calling down to me, y’know? ‘Yoo hang awn down deyah, honey, we gonna gitcha outta deyah, arright?’ All rescue workers everywhere should have talk like they’re from New York.”
I heartily concur.
Sarah Palin, of course, doesn’t think that New York is part of the “real” America. ...
