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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

First of all, it's not fair - or cool - to celebrate the misfortune of others, and I want to make sure everyone understands I'm putting distance between myself and anyone who might do that in this thread. I'm really sorry that things broke the way they did, particularly with Lehman, and I'm glad to know that anyone on this board who may have worked for that company is talented enough - and secure enough financially - to quickly land on their feet. I'm really sorry that we're all taking a beating financially, and feel that nobody who's talented at what they do deserves to lose their job as a result of someone else's mistakes.

Second of all...

Jim, you can call my statement ignorant all you want, but that doesn't make you right.

Obama targeted those states because his goal was to keep all the Kerry states and swing enough Bush battleground states to get to 270.

You can say that it's the dramatic increase in Latino population in North Carolina that has swung the state blue over the last three weeks, but that doesn't make you right. I just spent about a half hour on the US Census website - which I encourage you to do - and their figures would actually indicate that you're entirely wrong and that my statement is not ignorant at all.

Using the national average and looking at Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina, only two of those states - Nevada and Florida - have experienced growth in the Latino population that's higher than the rest of the country with any statistically significant margin between 2000 and today. Those same two states have also experienced growth in the black population that are higher than the national average.

All the rest of the states are either right on track with the national average, or they're growing more SLOWLY among the black and Latino population in the rest of the country.

Conversely, all three of the states you mentioned - Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada - have experienced growth among the population that would characterize itself as "white" that is significantly greater than the national average of 5%. In Nevada, there are 6.5% more white people than there were in 2000. In Colorado, that number is 7.3%. In New Mexico, it's an astounding 17.8%.

So if people were voting purely along racial lines, McCain would be blowing Obama's doors off in all three of those states. Looks like white people like Obama too, I'm sorry to say.

So maybe it's the declining Samoan population that's working in Obama's favor. Either that, or that rascally liberal media has gotten its claws into the Census bureau.

-Al