Almost half of Mississippi Republican voters polled said interracial marriage should be illegal

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28. You don't know why? It'll tell you but it'll make you sick when you think about it.

They don't bring these things up because they want those votes. They want the votes of the people who feel like puking when they see a black man and a white woman kissing.

I agree with your first and second points but they won't be part of a local or national platform any time soon because of the motivation I described above. For a long time, and still sometimes now, I used to believe that politicians were totally clueless. They're not. Obviously, if an individual is able to ascend to a notable public office either they or their staff have to be pretty goddamned sharp people. And so the other side of the coin is they do not do these things for some reason. And the reason is they want them votes. This "blind eye" is turned wherever we need to pick up seats. Look at some of the conservaDems from red states who we happily accept into the fold- so "our team" can get an edge...but who don't necessarily back us up when we need it.

On the third point, everyone was scratching at Obama with that lie to take him down:

My whole life I've been confronted with what are best described as nonsensical situations, where there is a clear and effective path...which is mysteriously not being taken. The older I get, when I see situations like that, the less I tend to think "Why is nobody running with this great idea?!?!" and the more I wonder about how the participants, themselves, helping to promote (if only in some technical sense) the abysmal situation itself.

PB