On a lighter side note, I had dinner with the in-laws tonight and my mother-in-law who is Taiwanese noted that she won’t vote for Obama because “I don’t want Oprah for vice president”.
PB…Actually, you can't imagine how many people I ran into that are worried it would be a Obama / Jesse Jackson ticket or something as simply that JJ would play a bigger role if Obama wins. I'm not even kidding. It's this sort of irrational fear that is why some folks that I talked voted for Clinton, even though they acknowledged potentially she would be more financially damaging to them versus Obama.
Imho, what would be extremely damaging for Obama is if Jesse Jackson comes out in public swinging with Obama endorsement in the context of furthering the specific cause for African Americans. I think if it came down to Obama versus McCain, several older generation asians will cross party lines and vote for McCain. Yes, it's pretty screwed up thinking, but it is what it is. I guess one peculiar thing that happened in this primary is that it brought out a lot of older asian voters that I know haven't voted in the past couple of elections…though they felt they "had" to vote in this election against Obama. There is this fear of favortism and inequality if Obama were to be elected.
