I wasn't "raciallizing" anything.

Illinois is a progressive state.

I'm talking more about Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, where Obama took college towns, the youth vote, the educated, and the big cities. But he completely bombed in the rural areas and with older people in these states, and this is not good since every four years in November, young people can't be found, and old people vote en masse, as usual.

What I'm saying is that there is a stigma among lots of working-class people that when they hear someone who might know more about "stuff" then they do, they are more apt to writing you off as a snob or an "elitist" than wanting to hear you out and learn something. Why is this the case throughout so much of that section of the public?

It used to be that people wanted to be "lifted up" to a smarter leader's level, but now it's about how effective a Presidential candidate "dumbs down" to reach the lowest common denominator so as not to offend them. That's why Obama got in trouble in Pennsylvania with his comments. Not everyone took it bad, but some people did. And what was he saying? That rural working-class voters get scared into voting on bullshit issues like gays, guns and religion, and fall into the trap, rather than rising above it and voting for the really important things. Obama was made to seem like an "elitist" because he spoke the truth.

We wouldn't want our doctor or a surgeon to be the type who "sounds the way we do", so why is this now the litmus test for picking a President? And don't tell me it isn't.