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There is a real, airtight bubble in this election, but it's not Obama's.
White people—white men in particular—are for Mitt Romney.
White men are supporting Mitt Romney to the exclusion of logic or common sense, in defiance of normal Americans.
Without this narrow, tribal appeal, Romney's candidacy would simply not be viable.
Most kinds of Americans see no reason to vote for him.
What is it with these white men?
What are they seeing that ordinary people don't see?
What accounts for this secession of theirs from the rest of America?
White people don't like to believe that they practice identity politics.
The defining part of being white in America is the assumption that, as a white person, you are a regular, individual human being.
Other demographic groups set themselves apart, to pursue their distinctive identities and interests and agendas.
Whiteness, to white people, is the American default.
Yet Mitt Romney's election strategy depends on the notion that the white vote is separate from the rest of the vote, and can be captured as such.
Romney is leading Obama 65-32 among white men and 53-44 among white women, giving him a 59 percent share of the white vote overall—"a new high".
This has been the foundation of Republican presidential politics for more than four decades, since Richard Nixon courted and won the votes of Southerners who'd turned against the Democratic Party because of integration and civil rights.
The Party of Lincoln became the party of Lincoln's assassins, leveraging white anger into a regional advantage and eventually a regional monopoly.
The passion comes from what Romney is running against.
For more than four years, without pause, Republicans have been campaigning and propagandizing against an imaginary Obama.
At the most grotesque end of the fantasies, he is a foreign-born, anti-colonialist Muslim.
In more reputable precincts, he is a power-mad socialist and a dumb affirmative-action baby, promoted all the way to the presidency by a race-crazed, condescending liberal elite.
It's a strange, inverted world, the white-people's bubble, full of phantoms and rumors.
Candidates are at the mercy of voter fraud, or the "urban—read African-American—voter-turnout machine".
If there's one thing white people have learned, it's that someone, somewhere, is trying to cheat them.
This is the idea behind Romney's 47 percent remarks —America is divided between regular, productive folks and the people who are victimizing them.
Here, Romney is speaking fluent White.
In white people's political English, "personal responsibility" is the opposite of "handouts," "food stamps," and particularly "welfare," all of which are synonyms for "niggers."
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...rrow_tribal_a ppeal_of_the_republican.2.html