Originally Posted by Jason Marcel

No, you're projecting.

Conservatives made race the issue, and the more they suggested Obama was foreign or different or "the other", the more it went that rational and sensible people decided that he was not so outrageous.

Conservatives framed the debate, not by saying they had the best ideas and the best candidate, but by saying that voting for that other guy would be the end of the world.

People stopped buying that horseshit, including whites.

As long as the GOP weirdos who have overrun that party don't take responsibility for their own shit, they'll continue to bleed support from all segments of American society, who are sick and tired of the far-right shooting their mouths off, getting elected, then blowing everything up without actually thinking things through first.