well,

my dream of a vadge-ful white house must be deferred.  honestly, i have been more than a little bit disappointed in good old hillary clinton during the last few months.  i still would have voted for her, though, of course.  and i remain skeeved* by the constant commentary about obama appealing to upper-middle-class voters, the more educated and better employed--is this the population mobilized by his campaign?  because i would deeply prefer that it be working-class and/or black voters.**  and does the demographic breakdown of supporters of the respective democratic candidates mean that people in the middle- and lower-middle, etc. classes--i.e., those who supported hillary--are more feminist or more racist or both or neither? (after all, clinton and obama are nearly identical on many important issues.)  or does it mean that obama really is the best man for the job and that knowing that is the result of being able to pay attention to the news and to the substance of politics, which is a luxury of the upper-middle class?

i am also skeeved because of what these reports about obama's support groups imply about those in the classes below "upper-middle."***  and skeeved by the unspoken and ever-present class divisions in this country. and skeeved because i deeply fear that all this means that mccain will be elected.  don't get me wrong:  i cannot freaking WAIT to vote for a black man for president, and i'm quite certain that obama would make a really great one.  but i am skeeved.

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*and, i must admit, a tiny bit mollified by my class solidarity.  muy authentico! (unless i means i'm racist, which i'd like to think it doesn't)

**hopefully these groups are mobilized and i am just not hearing about it?

***i cannot abide those blanket assumptions about all working-class white people, all white people in the south, etc., etc. being racist, etc.