re: #615 austin_blue

Here’s your post:

re: #492 Flyers1974

Maybe, but I can’t remember any politician in modern US politics who had won the loyalty of the …I would say “base” as opposed to fringe,,, as Palin did. With Obama, for example the loyalty wasn’t deep and can be explained: Who really loved Obama? Blacks for obvious historical reasons, and “elite” university types - because they spoke the same language. But how many of those elites are there? As far as four more years, who knows? Obama may go up and down ten times between now and 2012. I think as usual, the economy will answer this question.

You claim he won because of…what? Blacks and eggheads. This is plainly what you postulate. Sorry dude, the demographic was much more widespread. Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina. Unless you would suggest a different dynamic? No? Crickets?

I was comparing the cult of personality, or lack thereof regarding Palin and Obama. There is a difference between loyalty, i.e., the conservatives’ loyalty towards Sarah Palin, and merely voting for a candidate. People vote for candidates all the time without being particularly loyal. Conservatives state that mass “drinking the koolaid” was what got Obama elected. My theory is that is false - Obama’s loyalists were overstated in number and were in large part blacks and elitists. Most others voted for him because of the economy, the war and eight years of the opposite party in power. You are barking up the wrong tree with what you thought you saw.