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[kempermentor]

> Susan:
> There is some excellent analysis on the Bradley effect....think I saw 
> it at alternet.org, that it was exaggerated to begin with, and it's
not really a factor. ...

Kemper now:
I agree with you.  But racism of some sort still may play an issue.  I
recently received an email juxtaposing personal and educational
background of Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin. Here's a cut and paste:


What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the stage,
including at three month old infant and an unwed, pregnant, teenage
daughter?

What if John McCain was a former president of the Harvard Law Review?

What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating
class?

What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was a divorcee?

What if Obama was the candidate who  left his first wife after a
severe disfiguring car accident, when she no longer measured up to his
standards?

What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had a long affair
while he was still married?

What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became addicted to
pain killers but also acquired them illegally through her  charitable
organization?

What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama had been  a member of the Keating Five? (The Keating
Five  were five United States Senators accused of  corruption in 1989,
igniting a major political  scandal as part of the larger Savings and
Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s.)

What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?

What if Obama was the one who had  military experience that included
Discipline problems and a record of crashing seven planes?

What if Obama was the one who was known to display publicly, on many
occasions, a serious anger management problem?

What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money from beer
distribution?

What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected
reality, do you really  believe the election numbers would be as close
as they  are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes
positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities
in another when there is a color difference.

[no longer juxtaposing, just comparing]Educational  Background:

Barack Obama:
Columbia  University - B.A. Political Science with a  Specialization
in International  Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware -  B.A. in History and B.A. in Political  Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris  Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

John McCain:
United  States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of  899

Sarah Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University -  1 semester North Idaho College - 2
semesters -  general study University of Idaho - 2 semesters -  
journalism Matanuska-Susitna College - 1  semester University of Idaho
- 3 semesters - B.A.  in Journalism


Back to Kemper:
Personally, I hadn't even thought about it from this perspective.

Just something to ponder, ignore, deny or delete.

Kemper Hussein Mento