Reply #9: Yep, that pretty much

[liberalhistorian]

sums it up for a good many of them, just like it does for us with McSame.

I do think for some of them there's a racial component as well, although many may not admit that even to themselves. Others are much more open about it. Also, should Obama win, that's a major, major, major sea change in politics, just like the younger generation is really revolutionizing things, and it's a kind of "handover" to a different generation and the beginning of a different era. That's very frightening to a lot of people, especially older people, the sense of having their world changing like that. And the latent racism makes for some heavy emotions as well.