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NY Magazine on Race and the Race
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... –Whether Obama’s race, rather than perceptions that he’s aloof, elite, effete, hurting him in the polls among whites. ...
NY Magazine's Heilemann: McCain Plans to 'Viciously' Stir Up Racism
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Conservatives are more racist than the population at large, and John McCain plans to "viciously" stir up racism to beat Barack Obama. That is John Heilemann's belief, as propounded in his New York magazine article, The Color-Coded Campaign, and spelled out in a CNN appearance today. The author also employs the trite epithet— "Wonder Bread America"—to describe that portion of the country not lucky enough to be NYC. ...
Carol Platt Liebau: With Friends Like These . . .
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... .) Also emerging is even heavier coverage -- from the left -- of the "race issue." And that's no coincidence. John Heilemann's piece in NY Magazine prophesies that Republicans plan viciously to stir up racism in order to beat Barack. Anna Quindlen writes in Newsweek about ...
We're so racist
Alarming News —
We're so racist New York Magazine outdoes itself with not one, but two articles on how Americans are racist if they don't elect Obama: Why isnt Obama doing better in the polls? The answer no one wants to hear. Although to John Heilmann's credit, he does end the article with the possibility that maybe it's not just race (but still mostly race) that may lose Obama the election: For many Democrats, Obamas eventual residence there has long seemed a foregone conclusion. But cast your mind forward twenty years and imagine looking back on this election. Would it really seem ...
Remainders: In the round
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
... him on his insufficient enthusiasm for American motorcycles in a microtargeted Wisconsin radio ad.
And returns fire on the celebrity charge with an ad that Ana Marie Cox carries out to its logical conclusion
But Bob Kerrey says McCain’s good in a crisis.
Richard Holbrooke reemerges on the Post op-ed page with a set of recommendations for dealing with Russia.
Are the Kilpatricks undermining Obama in Michigan?
John Heilemann argues race is holding Obama back.
McCain snags the ...
New York magazine on race and Obama
The Swamp —
... The main story, by political reporter John Heilemann, suggests that for Obama to win, he'll have to "make the country comfortable with the most unusual profile of any person ever to come within spitting distance of occupying the White House." ...
Inside the Obama Bunker
The Corner on National Review Online —
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 [image] Inside the Obama Bunker [Ramesh Ponnuru] According to John Heilemann , Obama isn't doing better because of white racism. Using "anti-affirmative action lingo" is racist. Obama needs to reprise his "superb race speech in March in Philadelphia." And what the country really needs is to have a "conversation" about race. Reading the piece, I began to see the outlines of a grand cross-ideological bargain: Conservatives get to deny Obama the presidency, and in return liberals get to call their fellow citizens racists for the next twenty years. I'll ...
Re: Inside the Obama Bunker
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Wow, I just read that John Heilemann piece Ramesh brought up. Read the last page if you don't have time for the whole thing. It's very close to a parody. In addition to that much needed racial conversation liberals are always craving (and then silencing the moment they hear something they don't approve of), I really liked the bit where he just asserts that McCain plans to "viciously exacerbate" America's "race-fueled angst" in the "weeks ahead." Maybe Heilemann can release the memos he has in his possession that corroborate this bald assertion of fact. ...
The Rev. Wright’s Auspiciously Timed Book Tour
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... in an era scarred by terrorism, a background alien to much of Wonder Bread America, and the full name Barack Hussein Obama—lost? No, it would seem inevitable. That Obama has convinced us that the opposite outcome is even possible is testament to his many gifts. The next three months will show whether they include a talent that would serve him very well in the Oval Office: the ability to conduct a necessary, indeed vital, conversation that no one really wants to have.
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No 'October Surprise' from Rev. Wright
Political Radar —
... No 'October Surprise' from Rev. Wright August 13, 2008 8:38 AM ABC News' Teddy Davis and Rigel Anderson Report: The political world was atwitter this week when New York Magazine suggested that the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was planning to publish a book in October. John Heilemann wrote in his analysis of the "Color-Coded Campaign" that the book "might well place the topic of Obama's blackness (along with his patriotism and his candor about what he heard in the pews in all those years at Trinity Church) squarely at the center of the national debate." But there will be no book ...
Rielle Hunter’s sister: Oddly enough, the baby looks like John Edwards
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... ; and of course (d) how a guy who claims it was over by 2006 might have fathered a child born in 2008. To put in perspective for you just how low Silky’s credibility has sunk even on the left, yesterday’s edition of “Hardball” featured Salon editor Joan Walsh and New York magazine writer John Heilemann (responsible for this recent TPM-ish excrescence ) and neither one of them could have been any more skeptical of Edwards’s story than if they were RNC spokesmen. I said last week that I thought he’d recover from this eventually but now I’m not so sure. Click the image to watch. ...
Obama and Color-Coded Racial Double Talk
Pajamas Media —
Could racism really keep Barack Obama out of the White House? [image] [E]ven if black turnout rises by 25 percent from 2004 … if Hispanic turnout holds steady … and the under-50 vote rises by 5 percent … the Democrat would still need to win 40 percent of the overall paleface vote to prevail in November … — John Heilemann The “paleface vote,” Mr. Heilemann? Very sophisticated. That’ll do wonders for race relations. In his color-coded article, “ The Color-Coded Campaign ,” John Heilemann doesn’t just hint that racial prejudice will prevent Barack Obama from winning the White ...
Obama and Color-Coded Racial Double Talk
Pajamas Media —
Could racism really keep Barack Obama out of the White House? [image] [E]ven if black turnout rises by 25 percent from 2004 … if Hispanic turnout holds steady … and the under-50 vote rises by 5 percent … the Democrat would still need to win 40 percent of the overall paleface vote to prevail in November … — John Heilemann The “paleface vote,” Mr. Heilemann? Very sophisticated. That’ll do wonders for race relations. In his color-coded article, “ The Color-Coded Campaign ,” John Heilemann doesn’t just hint that racial prejudice will prevent Barack Obama from winning the White ...
Obama, Blackness and the Electorate
QandO —
John Heilemann, writing for New York magazine, is receiving a fair bit of criticism for an article in which he tries to explain why Obama is doing so badly at the polls. ...
Is race the drag on Barack Obama's poll numbers?
Top of the Ticket —
As more and more attention is paid to Barack Obama's failure to stake out a solid, sustained poll lead in the presidential race (as of Sunday, the Gallup daily tracking survey pegged the contest a flat-out tie), more and more attention focuses on the often unspoken -- race -- as a key factor.
In a recent New York magazine piece, John Heilemann wrote: "Call me crazy, but isn’t it possible, just possible, that Obama’s lead is being inhibited by the fact that he is, you ...
Is Jermiah Wright planning an October Obama surprise?
Top of the Ticket —
... It had all the elements of a perfect political mystery during the heat of a surprisingly close presidential election campaign -- there at the end of a recent New York magazine story headlined "The Color-Coded Campaign," was an unattributed paragraph reporting that: ...
Racist Videos -- watch at your own risk!
Classical Values —
... : In his color-coded article, " The Color-Coded Campaign ," John Heilemann doesn't just hint that racial prejudice will prevent Barack Obama from winning the White House. He states it directly and without equivocation. The reason America's first black major party presumptive presidential nominee hasn't blown out the intractably boring and uninspiring John McCain in the polls, given "surging" Democratic voter registration and voters' disenchantment with Republicans, is his skin color. It wouldn't have anything to do with Obama's liberal beliefs, inexperience, gaffes, and ...
Your Post-Election Analysis Today
Weekly Standard Blog —
... liberals are already beginning to assert that racism, not rational policy disagreement or unease with the candidate's youth and inexperience, will lead to Barack Obama's defeat in November. Bai calls this line of argument what it is: hogwash. Here's Bai: ...
The Color-Coded Campaign
Suburban Guerrilla —
What Barack Obama has to do to win:
Although Obama and his people are laboring mightily to expand the electorate—by driving up turnout among black voters and the young—even if they succeed wildly in that endeavor, the central hurdle to Obama’s election will be white voters. The pollster Thom Riehle, who founded the AP/Ipsos survey and is now a partner at the firm RT Strategies, calculates that even if black turnout rises by 25 percent from 2004 (and Obama wins 92 percent), if Hispanic turnout holds steady (and Obama wins 60 percent of it, seven points ...
