Hoystory

I had no idea!

Actually, that’s a lie. I did know that — and I also know that as a conservative Republican, the color of Obama’s skin matters not one whit as to whether or not I’d vote for or against him.

Democrats, on the other hand, are apparently a bunch of bigots because Obama didn’t win New Hampshire.

Many theories have been advanced in the media since Hillary Clinton’s stunning upset over Barack Obama. One of them has been much contested: that white voters told pollsters they would vote for Obama but couldn’t quite pull the trigger for the African-American candidate when the time came to cast their ballots. This allegedly counted for more than any sort of “late female surge” for Clinton.

Maybe when Bill Clinton referred to the “fairy tale” surrounding Obama he meant the fable that massive numbers of whites would actually vote for Obama when they had plausible alternatives.

Why in New Hampshire and not in Iowa? The Iowa caucuses were quite public, this theory goes, while voters had a curtain to hide behind in New Hampshire.

An interesting new detail has now emerged seemingly bolstering that theory: not just advance polls, but some exit surveys apparently show that even coming out of the polls, voters in New Hampshire gave Obama about a 5% bulge — if they were being honest. Where did all those votes go? Maybe he never really had them to start with.

Oh, I love this. Democrats are racists! After all these decades of accusing Republicans generally, and conservatives specifically, of harboring racist thoughts and feelings, it turns out that it was all a case of projection.