Is Obama about to change his rhetoric on Affirmative Action?
Jeremiah

As a state senator representing the 13 district on the South Side of Chicago, Obama endorsed traditional, race-oriented affirmative action as “absolutely necessary,” and pushed hard for programs that mandated racial and gender based hiring preferences.

Polls show Obama’s support among blacks at over 90 percent, and a recent Rasmussen poll suggests that if Obama were to “move/flip-flop” from race based to income based affirmative action he would gain white voters while maintaining the black vote.

It was the 2004 Democratic Convention keynote speech that thrust Barack onto the national stage where he said, “There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.”

Those were well thought out words at the time. But, I expect to see him ‘adjust’ his message on affirmative action as it grows closer to the convention and then move back to the left back passed the left within weeks or days of the election.

It should be a balancing act worth watching.

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