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"I see Arnold Hamilton is back at it in his typical hard-left fashion, with more name-calling and race-baiting, insinuating Oklahoma voters are a bunch of hick racist theocratic wingnuts. How nauseating.
Not voting for Obama does not mean Oklahomans "aren't ready to endorse a black man for the White House". It's not about race, it's about everything but: party affiliation, platform, qualifications, etc. Obama was rejected by Oklahoma voters on these grounds, not because of race.
Oh, if only J.C. Watts had been persuaded to run. Then you would have seen how quickly Oklahoma voters could vote for a black man for President.
"Wait", you say. "J.C. Watts played football at OU. He could be a green monster with 3-inch fangs that dripped venom, he'd still win in a landslide."
Well, perhaps. But since we've chosen to drag the race issue front and center, let's not gloss it over. However, I contend Watts could win in Oklahoma, not based on Sooner football glory but because of his political accomplishments, both on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and in Congress as a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma. And by the way, Watts was elected to the Corporation Commission as the first ever black in Oklahoma elected to a state office. His subsequent election (way back in the Jim Crow days of 1994) to the U.S. Congress as a representative from the 4th congressional district was history in the making; Watts was the first black Republican U.S. Representative from south of the Mason-Dixon Line to win office since Reconstruction. Oklahoma's 4th District (90% white at the time) had been represented by Democrats since 1922.
Does Hamilton know this? Sure he does. But this is omitted since these are rather inconvenient facts.
Oklahomans aren't stupid. We know the difference between nags and thoroughbreds. That's why we vote the way we do."
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