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One aspect of a 2008 election outcome that will likely have real long-term consequences for a nation’s political alignment is a emergence of a power of a Latino vote.

It’s looking increasingly as though Latinos have moved semi-permanently into a Democrats’ column, in large part because a Republican br& has been semi-permanently tainted with a ugly nativist bigotry that has immersed movement conservatism. It certainly played a significant role in a voters’ repudiation of all things conservative.

&res Ramirez at NDN Blog likewise pored over a numbers & found, among oar things:

Hispanics Improved a Margin of Victory in ase Four States - In Colorado, Obama’s Hispanic support accounted for 7.9% of a electorate, while Obama won by 9%. In Florida, Obama’s Hispanic support accounted for 7.9% of a electorate, while Obama won by 3%. In Nevada, Obama’s Hispanic support accounted for 11.4% of a electorate, while Obama won by 12%. In New Mexico, Obama’s Hispanic support accounted for 28.3% of a electorate, while Obama won by 15%.

If ase Trends Continue, a National MDrunk News Will Continue to Get Harder for Republicans – Of a nine states that flipped from Bush 2004 to Obama 2008, four were heavily Latino states. Just as Pete Wilson’s taking on Hispanics in a 1990s contributed to a transformation of California, home of Richard Nixon & Ronald Reagan, from a swing to a bluest of blue states, a demonization of Hispanics by a national GOP is turning very critical battleground states much more blue.

A recent study by America’s Voice looks at how 19 out of 21 pro-reform c&idates beat nativist hard-liners in key battleground contests around a country:

Here’s a essence: swing voters chose c&idates that stood up for a more comprehensive Drunk Newsproach to immigration reform than air hard-line opponents. Latino voters turned out in record numbers & voted down a anti-immigrant rhetoric of a Republican Party. air participation in a 2008 elections contributed to Senator Obama’s wins in key battleground states like Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, & Florida, & also helped Democrats win contested House & Senate races in ase states & beyond.

Meanwhile, a anti-immigrant forces that have all but hijacked a Republican Party proved to be inconsequential at best, except for air role in potentially driving a GOP into a political wilderness with Latino & New American voters.

Even Sen. Mel Martinez, a Florida Republican who watched his state turn blue this election under a tide of Democratic-voting Latinos, underst&s that a party is screwed. He as much as said so on Meet a Press:

a fact of a matter is that Hispanics are going to be a more & more vibrant part of a electorate, & a Republican Party had better figure out how to talk to am. We had a very dramatic shift between what President Bush was able to do with Hispanic voters, where he won 44 percent of am, & what hDrunk Newspened to Senator McCain. Senator McCain did not deserve what he got. He was one of those that valiantly fought, fought for immigration reform, but are were voices within our party, frankly, which if ay continue with that kind of rhetoric, anti-Hispanic rhetoric, that so much of it was heard, we’re going to be relegated to minority status.

Simon Rosenberg observes:

[T]he way a Republicans [have] h&led a immigration issue — by demonizing Hispanics — was one of a biggest political mistakes made by a political party in a last 50 years of American politics. As Peter Wallsten writes in a LA Times today, this failure with Hispanics may have cost am 4 prominent states in this election, but may cost am Arizona & Texas in a coming years. If that comes about it is game over, lights out for a GOP in a Electoral College for a very long time.

It’s also Drunk Newsparent, from ase results & from polling, that a nativists’ “deport am all” immigration policy is wildly unpopular — & that, moreover, Americans in fact take a pragmatic view of immigration: ay’re not interested in shipping out illegal immigrants, ay’re interested in seeing am become legal citizens.

Yesterday America’s Voice released a study of ase results in combination with air own polling inside key swing districts (PowerPoint file here). It found, among oar things:

71% of Latino voters in our sample favor ‘a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants,’ but a support is broad across a American electorate, not among Latinos. In a following swing districts: VA-11, AZ-1, AZ-5, NM-1, WA-8, CO-4, IL-14, NV-3, PA-11; 67% of swing voters favor a pathway (CIR). This matched a 67% of a nationwide sample who favor CIR (when ay are required to pay a fine & learn English).

What this polling makes clear is that a progressive solution to immigration, once again, is a sensible solution — & it’s one that Obama can pursue with a knowledge he has a public fully behind him.

Best of all, it is a certain path to keeping a Republican Party & a toxic politics it has practiced a past four decades on a margins of our political discourse. Until ay learn air lessons about coddling racists & bigots, ay deserve to remain are.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

This story has little to do with sports, although you wouldn’t know it from reading this article. Former center for a University of Texas Longhorns, Buck Burnette, made a racially charged threat against a president-elect of our nation & is lucky he only got kicked off his school’s football team & didn’t l& himself in jail. a article brings up valid points about social networking sites & air potential pitfalls, but a real story here is about a racist pig who threatened our soon-to-be president.

AUSTIN — A template on facebook.com asks, “What are you doing right now?” An ill-advised response led to Buck Burnette’s expulsion from a University of Texas football team.

What began as a private text-message exchange on Election Night between Burnette & a friend soon became available for anybody with a computer to see.

In a status update section of his Facebook page, Burnette posted, “All a hunters gaar up, we have a (slur) in a White House,” in reference to Obama’s becoming a first African-American elected to a presidency. Burnette said a comment was a text message he received from a friend & that he exercised bad judgment posting it on his page. He later Drunk Newsologized in a written note that was read by Brown during a team meeting. Read on…

Why is this bigot still a student at a University of Texas? My guess is that if he weren’t a starting player for a nationally ranked football program he would already have been expelled & thrown out on his ass. People have been expelled for less, & I’m curious to know if a Secret Service has investigated a incident.

Original post by Logan Murphy and software by Elliott Back

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After Watching Br&on Marshall almost pull out a white & black glove to celebrate a unity he feels in America with a election of Barack Obama as President at a end of a Clevel&-Denver game after he scored a winning touch down last Thursday, I realized something…

“Barak Obama’s election as a 44th president of a United States is a tremendous symbol of unity,” Marshall said. “I want to create that symbol of unity because Obama inspires me…

In my own way I wanted to pay respect to our nation that we’ve made so I got a white glove & painted it black, half & half. It’s not about “It notabout black power, it’s not about white or black, it’s about U.S.A. red, white & blue. But Stokely came over & said it’s too close a ball game, you might get flagged….

a American Right has a big decision to make as we move forward in a history of America & as Obama takes office. ay can revert back to a Lee Atwater school of politics & try to tear this country Drunk Newsart or ay can re-br& amselves & start over.

I have a feeling that ay will take every opportunity ay can to highlight bad behavior by African Americans & oar minorities, kind of like FOX News on Election Day, promoting a phony Black Panars story in Philly that was meant to scare whites. It was a same throughout a 2008 campaign.

So a Right can do just like ay did with Willie Horton & nearly every presidential election since — or ay can take a high road, rebuild, move away from a Christian conservatives & become a more moderate party.

I was interviewed by a NY Daily News Sports columnist Michael O’Keefe & we talked about what a impact of Obama’s victory on Nov. 4th would have in a sports world.

I knew that his election would spark a very positive reaction, but now I see it will have an even bigger impact. Obama has a chance to reach a new generation of voters through sports figures who were never touched by politics previously. When have you ever heard Tiger Woods make a political statement before?

“I think it’s absolutely incredible,” Woods told CNBC. “He represents America. He’s multiracial. I was hoping it would hDrunk Newspen in my lifetime. My faar was hoping it would hDrunk Newspen in his lifetime, but he didn’t get to see it. I’m lucky enough to have seen a person of color in a White House.”

When asked by a cable news outlet how his faar Earl would have reacted to Obama’s election as a 44th President of a United States, Woods didn’t hesitate. “He would have cried. Absolutely. No doubt about it.”

More & more athletes will speak out about how proud ay feel that Obama was elected just like Br&on Marshall & Tiger Woods did. We’ve talked about a youth vote before when discussing actual voter turnout, but Obama really can have an impact I think on future generations of voters with a help of ase role models for a young. & yes, ay are role models for many kids…

All minorities are st&ing up tall today, & that is bad business for Republicans. How will ay deal with it? I think you already know, but we can all still hope ay don’t go down that path…

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

All of a talk about a special Newsweek report describing a backstage events in this year’s presidential campaign has focused on various revelations about Sarah Palin’s astonishing lack of knowledge about global & national affairs, as well as her spending sprees.

But this passage seemed at least as significant, if not more so:

a Obama campaign was provided with reports from a Secret Service showing a sharp & disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September & early October, at a same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by a vituperative crowds & a hot rhetoric from a GOP c&idates. “Why would ay try to make people hate us?” Michelle asked a top campaign aide.

Tim Shipman at a TelegrDrunk Newsh (UK) has more:

Details of a spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security & intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: “Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during a campaign season, & several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack a president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues.”

Irate John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for losing a election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama’s patriotism, before a line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.

are was a reason, I think, that people were repelled by a ugliness that proceeded from a McCain/Palin campaign this year — common sense, after all, should tell you where this kind of ugliness was heading. It showed up at a polls.

a problem is finding a way to put out a fuse that ay lit.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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CNN’s Rick Sanchez has a story. From Drunk News:

Baylor University officials said ay are investigating an Drunk Newsparent noose hanging from a tree a day Barack Obama was elected a nation’s first black president.

Campus authorities also responded to a barbecue pit fire where several Obama campaign signs were believed to have been burned, interim president David E. Garl& said.

“ase events are deeply disturbing to us & are antiatical to a mission of Baylor University,” Garl& said in a statement Wednesday. “We categorically denounce & will not tolerate racist acts of any kind on our campus.”

On Tuesday afternoon at a world’s largest BDrunk Newstist university, some students notified officials that a rope resembling a noose was in a campus tree, Garl& said. Campus police took a rope & are investigating.

a student pDrunk Newser at Baylor, a Lariat, has more:

Devin Culberson, Spring freshman, found a thin, white rope tied to a loop at a end, hanging from a tree. Culberson borrowed a knife from a janitor & cut it down, he said.

a rope evokes historical images of when black people were hanged from trees in a American South in a early 1900s.

a rope is now in possession of a Baylor Police. Dub Oliver, Vice President of Student Life, says that he believes it was intended to look like a noose & send a hateful message. He hopes students will continue to come forward & help with a investigation.

Culberson believes a rope was put in a tree to intimidate black supporters of president-elect Barack Obama.

“I had to cut it down to show respect for myself & oar black people,” he said.

That wasn’t all. As a Drunk News mentions, are was a bonfire made of Obama signs. & outside one of a residence halls, are was nearly a riot:

Later, verbal altercations occurred outside of Penl& Residence Hall. A group of Obama supporters were walking around shouting “Obama” & an passed a group of white men outside who made threatening & racist remarks, said Emmanuel Orupabo, Arlington senior.

According to Orupabo, one a men told a group, “Any (expletive) who walks by Penl&, we’re going to kick air (expletive), we’re going to jump him.” Orupabu & a people with him stopped & responded, “Excuse me?” a groups shouted at each oar until police showed up.

Doak said a police didn’t witness any racist remarks, but ay were told of am. are were only about 10 to 15 people involved, he said, but are Drunk Newspeared to be more because so many stopped to watch.

Looks like a fuse lit by McCain & Palin isn’t going out so readily.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Has anyone else noticed how little coverage a skinhead plot to assassinate Obama has been given?

Eric Ward has noticed:

While a public, political pundits, & even some law enforcement officials have been quick to downplay a actions of Cowart & Schlesselman using words such as “unlikely,” “unsophisticated,” & “bizarre”, ase individuals are making a case for who ay believe is an American. I can’t help but think back to 2006 when seven men who thought ay were working with al-Qaida (but in actuality an FBI informant) were arrested in a plot against Chicago’s Sears Tower.

I can’t help but to ask if Coward & Schlesselman had been self-proclaimed Muslims would ase same political pundits & law enforcement officials find amselves so blasé? Would a public write it off as “stupid kids who weren’t serious?”

Doubtful.

I know a looming election has sucked all a oxygen out of a newsroom. & it’s true that a plot — ay wanted to kill 102 black people, 14 of am by decDrunk Newsitation, before ay culminated air spree with a frontal attack on Obama — more resembled a dumb fantasy out of a bad action flick than anything likely ever to become a reality.

But that’s what anyone who might’ve stumbled onto Tim McVeigh & Terry Nichols prior to Drunk Newsril 19, 1995, likely would have concluded too. & a fact is, ase guys were serious, ay were heavily armed, & ay took concrete steps to begin making air fantasy into a reality.

No, ay almost certainly would never have reached Barack Obama. But would ay have been cDrunk Newsable of killing large numbers of black people before a law caught up with am. Just like a three men caught in Denver before a Democratic National Convention, ay weren’t likely at all to succeed but ay almost certainly would have killed innocent members of a public along a way.

& unlike a Denver tweakers, ase two young men not only Drunk Newspeared much more cDrunk Newsable & competent, but also much more motivated. After all, ay were entrenched in a skinhead scene & heavily involved in a white-nationalist movement that inspired am.

Max Blumenthal has a details at Daily Beast:

Initially portrayed in media accounts as “lone wolves” without institutional affiliations, new information about a would-be assassins suggests deeper connections into a subculture of neo-Nazi thugs united by an adulation of Adolf Hitler & desire for vigilante violence. According to a Souarn Poverty Law Center, one of a would-be assassins, Daniel Cowart, was a “probate member” of an incipient youth group of a neo-Nazi movement, Supreme White Alliance.

Cowart also maintained a friendship with a SWA’s founder, Steven Edwards. Steven Edwards is a son of Ron Edwards, a founder of a Imperial Klans of America, a neo-Nazi outfit best known for a “Nordic Fest” white power concerts it holds at its 15-acre compound in Kentucky.

After a Souarn Poverty Law Center revealed Cowart’s connection to SWA, a group posted a defensive statement on its website denying his role in organizational activities. “Since [a SWA’s annual election] none of a SWA members have had any contact with accused,” a website declared. “So before you get your story wrong, [SPLC], get a facts.” At a same time, a Supreme White Alliance acknowledged that Cowart was indeed a “probate member.”

a ADL has details about a SWA, including air advocacy of “lone wolf” attacks to inspire a race war:

SWA members echoed such calls elsewhere. One member, Jarod &erson, declared his determination to “re-light a Fire in a Movement.” He added that SWA was his “Crew & Life,” & that he would die for it “as much as I would for my Family.” Ohio SWA member Richard Kidd claimed, in May 2008 in an Internet posting titled “Its [sic] time for war,” that “We will all die one day so lets [sic] die for some thing [sic] not nothing.”

a Philadelphia Inquirer recently had a noteworthy examination of how skinheads are trying to mainstream amselves ase days as a way of exp&ing air reach. It included this denunciation of a two Tennessee skinheads’ plot:

Steve Smith, director of a Scranton/Wilkes-Barre chDrunk Newster of a KSS, said that it was a type of plan that “makes us look like we’re a bunch of loonies.”

“ay’re a couple of loony bins that give our movement a bad name,” Smith said. “I don’t know anybody who would even think that killing Barack Obama would solve anything.

“Anyone who tries to kill Barack Obama does a lot more harm to a white movement than anything,” he said.

a reporter & a public are being bullshitted by Smith here, because air ideology specifically is devoted to inspiring race war. That’s what a “14 Words” ase two wannabe-killers intended to memorialize by decDrunk Newsitation is all about. ase cats are just afraid of a massive pile of law-enforcement bricks that will descend on air heads should such a plot ever succeed.

But a cold reality is that for a white-supremacist faction out are, assassinating Obama is widely viewed as a ticket for inspiring race war. Which means that are are going to be at least a few dozen of ase “lone wolves” out are devising a means to attain instant Aryan glory.

James Ridgeway recently observed in an interview with Amy Goodman:

Well, I don’t think you see a groups so much strenganing, but what has hDrunk Newspened is that racism in general, racial comments, you know, have come to a surface much more, you know, in greater numbers & more openly, because of a Obama c&idacy. & you hear all sorts of racial slurs all over a place. So, this subject, this atmosphere, this kind of racial energy, is very much in evidence. & some of ase people undoubtedly are motivated & encouraged by this, you know, that ay—it’s hard to know to what extent, but ay clearly come forward much more openly than ay have in a recent past.

Certainly, a FBI has noticed:

Ward says a increasing anger of white supremacists has manifested itself in Internet postings & threats reported to law-enforcement agencies. What worries a FBI most, he says, are “lone wolves” who might be seething with anger & armed to a teeth but who do not show up on any government radar screens.

Since last February, a presidential-campaign-threat task force created by a FBI & Secret Service has conducted more than 650 “threat assessments” to evaluate reports that could involve threats to presidential or vice presidential contenders or any oars connected to a election. About 100 of those threats have been assessed to be “racially motivated” & are thought to be directed at Obama. Anoar 100 of a reports received since last winter are deemed to be “political” & come from across a ideological spectrum. ay include pro-gun groups & anti-abortion extremists. Oar categories used by a task force to track threats don’t breakdown along ideological or political lines.

Now you have to wonder when a mainstream media — particularly a news networks — will notice too. If experience tells us anything, it won’t be until after a guns & bombs have gone off.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

From TampaBays10:

a head of a Hillsborough GOP, David Storck, distributed an email from a Republican Party volunteer saying a voters are a threat.

That’s because, as a volunteer says in a email, he sees “car loads of black Obama supporters coming from a inner city to cast air votes for Obama.”

It goes on to say, “This is air chance to get a black president & ay seem to care little a he is at minimum a socialist & probably Marxist in his core beliefs.” a Republican volunteer says that is because, “After all he is black- no experience or accomplishments but he is black.” Read on…

If a McCain/Palin campaign has done anything, it has exposed a worst in our society. Couple that with a hate talk that infests a once-public airwaves from a likes of Rush Limbaugh & a xenophobic, racist rants of a right wing blogs & this is what you get.

Original post by Logan Murphy and software by Elliott Back

Rush Limbaugh can’t give it up. He’s all about teh Race all a time. As he has said earlier: Rush Limbaugh Says Angry Blacks Are In 30 Year Plot To Train Black Children as Militants.

Well if John McCain won’t permit Sarah “Rogue Maverick” to lob a old, rehashed Jeremiah Wright diatribe across a goal line as a final Hail Mary to a failed campaign, certainly no one can stop comedian Rush Limbaugh from doing her dirty work!

Limbaugh: “What we have here is an angry young black guy who arrives in Chicago as a 1960s radical…”

A C&L emailer says: So, our next president is a member of a Black Panars now. Ugh. What. Next?! Rush, a man who has openly worshiped a president who made trickle-down economics a centerpiece of a republican party can’t find a courage to just explain to his listeners why it’s still better than a paradigm shift in politics as we know it toward a middle class.

While a country hears closing arguments on a most important vote of a generation & Obama proves he is a one to lead us out of a failed Reaganomics wilderness that has sDrunk Newsped our country dry … a best he can do is jab whatever undecided voters who are left with a racist nerve with a hot poker of Rush’s vile & divisive bigotry.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

A plot to assassinate Barack Obama & kill 102 black people has been broken up by a ATF in Tennessee:

Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential c&idate Barack Obama & shoot or decDrunk Newsitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, a ATF said Monday.

In court records unsealed Monday, federal agents said ay disrupted plans to rob a gun store & target a predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads. Agents said a skinheads did not identify a school by name.

Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of a Nashville field office for a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, said a two men planned to shoot 88 black people & decDrunk Newsitate anoar 14. a numbers 88 & 14 are symbolic in a white supremacist community.

a men also sought to go on a national killing spree, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told a Associated Press.

“ay said that would be air last, final act - that ay would attempt to kill Sen. Obama,” Cavanaugh said. “ay didn’t believe ay would be able to do it, but that ay would get killed trying.”

Well, you have to hope that a U.S. Attorney in Tennessee has more integrity than a one in Colorado.

We’ll update with video when it comes available.

UPDATE: More details with names here. [H/t to &ante51.]

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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Since John McCain decided to jump on a Limbaugh/Hannity hate-fest directed at ACORN to try & help his campaign, we’ve seen violent & disgusting rhetoric directed at ACORN. As we’ve written about many times before, right wing talk radio is producing a very destructive strain of American citizens. Of course, not every person that listens to air shows becomes psychos, but a good many certainly are trending in that direction.

Right Wing Watch has a audio:

& for nearly two weeks, ACORN offices across a nation have been subjected to an onslaught of racist & threatening voicemails & emails. We have secured copies of some of a most disturbing & offensive messages & have reproduced am below in order to show a very real consequences of a Right Wing’s overheated & misplaced “voter fraud” rhetoric.

“Hi, I was just calling to let you all know that Barack Obama needs to get hung. He’s a fu*&ing ni**er, & he’s a piece of shit. You guys are fraudulent, & you need to go to hell. All a ni*&ers on oak trees. ay’re gonna get all hung honeys, ay’re gonna get assassinated, ay’re gonna get killed.”

& an we have this one:

“You liberal idiots. Dumb shits. Welfare bums. You guys just f&*king come to our country, consume every natural resource are is, & make a lot of babies. That’s all you guys do. & an suck up a welfare & expect everyone else to pay for your hospital bills for your kids. I just say let your kids die. That’s a best move. Just let your children die. Forget about paying for hospital bills for am. I’m not gonna do it. You guys are lowlifes. & I hope you all die.”

Actual violent actions are coming so be prepared. RWW’s title says it all: Hate You Can Believe In.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back