Who has the "White" vote?

The primaries in Kentucky and Oregon just closed and Hillary won Kentucky and Obama won Oregon; both won handily.

The pundits, heard the next day, were debating if Obama can get the white vote or has Hillary sown up the white vote for herself.

In the early elections Obama did garner basically 100% of the black vote but had mixed results with other ethnic groups including “whites”. The debate then goes into, who has the best chance against McCain in the general election or who can carry the most whites who after all, represent the majority of the population, at least today.

You may not have known this but Kentucky is basically white and so is Oregon so if Obama won Oregon and Hillary won Kentucky, who won the white vote.

Well, I think we are talking about two classes of whites. Oregon is populated by white yuppies; Microsoft, Starbucks, educated, liberal, rich type of whites. They will most definitely vote for Obama in the general election even though as business people they may hold a fear of Democratic socialist philosophy which Obama espouses and may try to institute but they hold a greater fear of Republican social backwardness which may move the nation into the dark ages.

The whites in Kentucky are different from the whites in Oregon. They are about country music, middle class, hard work, conservative, horses, some education type of whites. In fact, these types of whites will probably vote for McCain and only voted in the Democratic primaries to show Obama that they prefer a white candidate even though she is a female.

Will the whites unite to support a Democratic candidate irregardless of whether it is Obama or Hillary? I think when everything is said and done, the majority will because to vote Republican is basically not an option.

Who will have an easier time beating McCain? Well, I still think it is Obama because he has less political baggage dragging him down, is not a Washington insider, is a man (unfortunately the country is still sexist), is a better debater and is younger.

Will he make a better president? Only time will tell.