Can Obama defeat Winner Take All
Staff Writer
2008-07-14
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Can Obamamania defeat winner take all? Winner take all is the voting process in the historic southern states. The majority of these southern states were apart of the civil war but on the Confederate side and to date have maintained their power when it comes to picking the President of the United States. The history of Winner Take All should be studied but , this article will not go into the history of Winner Take All. Although some people view Winner Take All as institutional racism, the southern states have not changed their Electoral voting process.
If one is to look at Winter Take All, they may get a little upset. For example, Over the past elections, blacks votes count for 46% of the popular vote and whites only 27% in the south. Due to Winner Take All, those black votes did not even count. The candidate that gets the majority of the popular votes for that state will get all the Electoral College votes for that state. Even if the other candidate wins a section of that state down to the district level, he or she dose not get one Electoral College vote because the south uses Winner Take All. The Electoral College vote not the popular vote will determine the winner for the Presidential Race in the United States.
With this concept in mind, Obama will have to get traditional Republican voters to come over to his side. Although lately Obama has seem more center then anything, this may get some of those Republican votes. Although Obama standings in the southern states seem strong doing the race against Hillary Clinton, please remember the voting pool was only the Democratic members. Winner Take All is Obamamania biggest problem.
If the Obamamania team wants to win, they better get in that good ole boy face and smile. They better smile like they never smiled before and , they may have to do a little dance. If Obama's supporters want to win down south, every office mate that is not for Obama has to be convinced to vote for Obama. Everyone down south knows that some non black southerns like it when black southerns seem good and happy. I don't know how those black southerns are going to get the non black southerns to turn coat but, all one can say is smile when you say Vote for Obama and don't look them in the eye.