re: #179 HappyWarrior

I agree. There’s a lot of assuming among mostly white pollsters that minority voters especially African-Americans aren’t as motivated to vote without Obama at the top of the ticket.

White people, especially white males, often take an intrinsically myopic view of identity politics. Too many of us find it easy to either dismiss minority thought processes or pigeonhole them into simplistic patterns, without even trying to imagine how we’d react if put in the same place. We don’t credit other groups with the intelligence to identify and act in their own self interest. If nothing else it speaks to the deteriorating effects being in the dominant sociological position has on perception.