Well, I guess the Washington Post has noticed what I have; That when you lump people into groups, you tend to have problems. Everyone courted the Latino, Black, and every other minority group, but they ignored white guys like me.
In the fierce campaign between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, a battle dominated by questions of race and gender, white men have emerged as perhaps the single critical swing constituency. 
The competition for the support of white men, particularly those defined as working class, will shape the showdown between Clinton and Obama in Pennsylvania's Democratic presidential primary on April 22. Obama (Ill.) won majorities among those voters in what appeared to be breakthrough victories in Wisconsin and Virginia last month. But he badly lost working-class white men to Clinton (N.Y.) in Ohio and Texas two weeks ago, keeping the outcome of the Democratic race in doubt indefinitely.
However, I reject this notion. I don't want to be "courted" because of the color of my skin or my gender. I want to be "courted" because I am an American voter and a candidate shares my political views.
Sure, there are a couple of issues that, if you disagree with them, I will not vote for you on (Gun Control, Terrorism, etc.). However, if you and I share common ground on a lot of issues, chances are, I'll vote for you, regardless of political party.
I know it's politically correct to "go after" Black and Latino voters, but let's grow up shall we? How about we court voters because they are simply voters?
Travis
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they court to demographics because the majority of people will buy into hype about them. This isn't meant to be a racist comment in any way but you're just feeling left out because they didn't give a shout out to you, middle class white man. Isn't life tough?
Perhaps you should go back a bit and use the search function and look up what I've written about in the past. I'm saying that in an ideal world, candidates wouldn't court the "black" vote and change their political speeches based upon race.
Why bother even addressing that issue if it will never be relevant? People enjoy being courted to, it's why advertising works.
Indeed you are right. People do like to be "courted". However, I do find it rather telling when politicians court the "black" vote or the "Latino" vote and no one bats an eye. If someone did the same thing to white people, they'd be considered borderline racist.
It's the hypocrisy that I tire of.
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