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Article: White men can vote; The presidential election.
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2008
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And there are a lot of them, even if they can't dance
IN A family restaurant with bottomless coffee, Paul Radaker chews on a battered fish. A retired carpenter, he has been a Democrat all his life. But this year, he is leaning towards John McCain. The Republican candidate is a war hero, he observes. Barack Obama may be intelligent, but "I don't really know what he stands for."
Mr Obama's race "doesn't bother me at all", says Mr Radaker. The question sparks an anecdote about the Korean war. The southern guys Mr Radaker met when he served there "really didn't like blacks," he recalls, "But I guess that's changed now." Still, he reckons that plenty of ...