What could possibly explain this relationship? A headscratching analysis

[DemPGH]

Yeah, there's a race issue at play here, but it's also true that a modest number of Americans walk around believing things about the left and anything associated with the left that most here would find really nuts. A few that were applied to Clinton all the way back when I was in high school, and now to Obama, were that "the Democratic President" is going to do all kinds of things: Put the armed forces under foreign control, unilaterally ban gun ownership, cancel elections-- pure madness. This palpable level of fear would be to me a really interesting sociological analysis. In the '80s and the early '90s it had broadly to do with paralyzing fear of the Soviet Union, but now is really uninformed madness.