LA- JMC: Vitter surging and Edwards collapsing

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Obama wasn't the president in 2004.

Well, that's exactly my point.

The national democratic party is too pro-black for the south.

Are you calling every state that voted for Romney and/or Republican in 2010/2014 racist? Democrats blaming every loss on racism, low turnout, voter fraud, voter suppression, big money, the Kochs, etc. etc. will lead to an even bigger Republican landslide in 2018. You guys will be lucky if there's still a single Democratic Romney state Senator left after the 2018 elections.

No, I'm talking about the South.

So let me get this straight: the South is racist when they vote for Republicans, but not when they vote for Democrats?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Of course Vitter is going to win.

Do you really believe the LA whites are going to vote for a democrat when basically a black democrat is the president?

This is the south guys.

Yeah, that's why noted racist state Tennessee voted for two Democratic Senators and a Democratic governor in 1994 - if Bill Clinton only had been black, they obviously would have lost. Oh wait...
Come on. Obama is a horrible fit for the South in general and the Obama factor plays a role here, no one doubts that, but if Vitter wins (which I still don't believe), it will be because LA Whites just realized that he has an R next to his name and that he's more conservative than Edwards.

On twitter I read about another tracking poll that has Edwards up 50-40 and the pollster did not find any bump for Vitter. Vitter is toast, it's time to accept it and move on.

^^^ LA polls actually underestimated Mary Landrieu's showing in the runoff by a considerable margin.

This is a simple fact.  The reason Obama is unpopular in the South is not due to racism; it's due to the fact that he's far too liberal for Southern white voters.  A white Democrat with his views wouldn't be well liked down there, either.

If it were merely a question of racism, then could someone please explain to me why they elected Mark Pryor, Mary Landrieu, Kay Hagan, Jim Folsom, Jim Hood, Kathleen Blanco, etc. ?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

The level of hypocrisy is funny.

I will just post the exit polls of one southern state:
http://edition.cnn.com/election/2012/results/state/MS/president/#

89% of the whites voted for Romney in MS, 96% of the blacks voted for Obama.

But yes, #Colorofyourskindoesntmatter

Was that because of racism, or because Southern whites are typically conservative and blacks liberal?  Obama is the most left-wing president in modern memory--nobody with his views, black or white, could get elected in the South.