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In a CNN Commentary, Roland Martin puts race, age, and gender on the table.  We identified race as the "elephant in the room" in a previous blog.  With these observations, Martin lays out the full spctrum of biases tht might affect how we vote.

It's wonderful to talk about the economy, immigration, the war in Iraq, health care and education, but we can't be naïve to the reality that when voters go into that voting booth, they will, as one person told me during an interview, "vote with their tribe."

We are seeing remarkable bias playing strongly in this election. Exit-polling data in the

A recent Associated Press and Yahoo.com poll seems to have come up with part of the answer as to why Obama can't seem to pull away from McCain. According to the poll a shocking part of the answer is that Obama faces this: 40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents. Read more on this by clicking the link below:

http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html

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The closer we get to the election, the more Presidential he appears.   I have heard that  "crises don't develop character, they reveal character."  I think Obama showed presidential character today.

In the midst of the financial meltdown, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama on Friday called for an economic plan for working families, saying, "We cannot only have a plan for Wall Street. "We must also help Main Street," he said.
While "tough new regulations on financial institutions" are needed, the Illinois senator called for an emergency economic plan for working families.
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