I’m glad I live overseas so I can be somewhat sheltered from the fact that we are entering bad times in America. This magazine is just a blatant reminder of that fact.

KendallJ, actually the media and many other Obama supporters DID say that latinos must be racist for supporting Clinton, their rationale being, of course, that they don’t like Clinton so there must not be any reason to support her. They don’t care about policy, it doesn’t affect them, so caring about that must be stupid or a cover. I can’t tell you how many times I heard “Latinos hate Black people.” I’m a Black working class woman and I have to agree with you 100% that it’s classist and untrue to act like there’s a special amount of racism in the white working class. I can say personally that I’ve experienced more racism from the upper class. Those Democrats in pacific Heights laughed loud when Obama dissed religion blinded rubes, but while they were patting themselves on the back for their superiority, they weren’t examining their own behavior and seems like they hold more power in society, too.

Kevin, you seem like a nice guy and it’s great that you care about women’s equality, but it’s not really your place to give Obama credit for what he’s doing for women’s equality to a bunch of women any more than it’s some white man or woman’s place to tell you or me that some white pol has a great record on civil rights issues that we just can’t see. We’ll be the judge of that, thanks.

“Furthermore, the media didn’t brand men who voted for Obama as sexist, even though clearly some were. ”

I agree that this was yet another aspect of lopsided media coverage, though strickly speaking I don’t know if you could say “though clearly some were.” But, given the degree of sexism out there, it seems safe to assume that among the mllions of men who voted for Obama, some percentage were likely of the ilk that they couldn’t vote for a woman. (Not sure if any pollsters had this as a question.)

fsteele – At this point in time the data on campaign staffers salaries is no longer on the site cause it’s no longer a current issue. But I do believe they are a highly credible org and becuase they are non-partisan, they just report the facts as they are. Their sole task is salary reporting for political-types. What was interesting was that earlier in the year Obama’s female staffers were at 83 cents on the dollar and then dropped to 78 cents. The figures the org reports are always about 6 months old due to the delay in research, organizing data, and publishing. But it was disturbing to see Obama’s women paid so much less than men, and then even less! Ch-ching! “Change”

You make a very good point!!!

The notion that working class whites are any more racist than wealthy whites is billshit. I am sure there were working class whites who are racist and voted for Clinton over Obama because of it, but to brand the whole demographic and many whole states was outragous. The real racism is primarily within wealthy white male run institutions that have power over poeple, not poor and working class whites who are scraping to get by. Most of them saw that Clinton had a plan to help them, and that is why they voted for her. The media didn’t accuse the latinos of being racist and she was getting their votes by 65%.. The latino’s voted for her for the same reason working class whites did. She gave them a concrete plan of what she would do to help them.

Furthermore, the media didn’t brand men who voted for Obama as sexist, even though clearly some were.

Both MSNBC and CNN trashed the working class and they were obviously wrong, or Obama wouldn’t have won the general election.