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Originally Posted by Von Tonner

Ok, firstly if one looks at the electoral vote polling it is a landside. And I don't mean that as a cheap shot - I just want to get it out of the way.

Here is my take, maybe I am wrong, but I really believe that there is a paradigm shift economically and politically running through the world. Anyone who believes otherwise does so at their peril. This implies change. Change by nature is a venture into the unknown. It holds perils, fears, uncertainty, dangers - all things that make those who want to hold onto their comfort zone difficult to bring on board. You have to sell them the opportunities and safety the change can be to them.

I am looking at your question from a South African perspective. We had as South Africans a major 'change moment' a few years back. Nelson Mandela was released from jail and we had been fed the garbage from the media that he was the devil reincarnated but you know what, he became the president and followed a policy of reconcilliation that stunned the world. We were blessed as a country that after all the years he spent in jail for his beliefs in equality he harboured no ill will to those whites who put him there. And we have prospored as a nation.

The USA, IMO, in Obama, has this same magical moment - cometh the hour, cometh the man. Yes, you have racists in the USA who are not in anyway going to vote for Obama no matter how much his fiscal policies could benifit them. But history is, like in SA, unfortunately against them.

So, anyone who does not vote for Obama is a racists???:hmm: