How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson in New Book How Obama Won Says These Tough Economic Times Hold Deep Peril for Obama

2009-02-02T15:37:00.000-08:00

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Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson in New Book How Obama Won
Says These Tough Economic Times Hold Deep Peril for Obama

Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson in his new book, How Obama Won, predicted that the economy would hold deep peril for the new Obama administration. Hutchinson reviews in his book how polls repeatedly showed during the campaign that the economy; or rather the train wreck of the economy was really the only thing on voter’s minds.

Hutchinson also told why and how economic woes would continue to be the only thing on American’s minds after the election and that they would judge Obama’s performance on how quickly and effectively he dealt with the economic crisis.

Hutchinson assesses whether Obama’s vow to cut taxes for the middle-class, clean up Wall Street's mess, and create lots of jobs for everybody would do much too stem America’s economic worries. Hutchinson shows how the economy continues to bear out the old political truism that it's the economy stupid that wins or loses presidential elections as well as makes or breaks presidential administrations.

In How Obama Won, Hutchinson, reminds that from day one of campaign 2008 the enshrined article of political faith was that voters were so furious at Bush for causing massive plant closings, farm failures, corporate bungling, fraud and corruption, the housing collapse, soaring gas prices, and the wholesale flight of jobs to the far corners of the planet. America’s fear and fury over the economic misery will grow worse during the early days of the Obama administration. The test, says Hutchinson, is whether Obama can reduce those fears. How Obama Won is a blueprint for understanding how he’ll try.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst and a Huffington Post columnist. He is the author of The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House (Middle Passage Press, February, 2008).

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Inauguration Day with Earl Ofari Hutchinson and NPR Radio

2009-01-19T18:13:00.000-08:00

NPR.org, January 19, 2009 · Throughout Inauguration Day, the NPR news team and a few political journalists will take your questions and chat about the inauguration of Barack Obama.

Nina Totenberg kicks off our chats at 10 a.m. ET. A schedule follows, but it can and probably will change, so check back often.

10 a.m. ET

Nina Totenberg

Dick Meyer

Vaughn Ververs

11 a.m. ET

Farai Chideya

Mara Liasson

Rod Dreher

1 p.m. ET or after the inaugural speech

Ken Rudin

Ron Elving

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson Discusses How Obama Won with Nikki Leigh

2009-01-19T13:38:00.000-08:00

Hear my radio show that caused a listener to call me disgusting, a fraud and a disgrace -- no kidding. They didn't call in, but their thoughts were posted in the chatroom. Sadly, the person's user name included Hillary - its sad to see someone acting like that and associating it with Hillary. This person obviously didn't hear the very good things we mentioned in the beginning about Hillary Clinton and anyone who read Earl Ofari Hutchinson's columns knows he is a staunch Hillary supporter. Learn more about How Obama Won on this call - www.learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com

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2009-01-18T10:38:00.000-08:00

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How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a provocative, hard hitting critical assessment of the issues, events, forces, politics, pressures and controversy that shaped and ensnared Barack Obama in his historic 2008 presidential campaign. Cut through the endless numbers and statistics to learn get straight to the key issues that made the difference.

Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson examines the impact of race and gender, campaign strategy, the key political players, the nature of presidential politics, the changes in the Democratic and Republicans parties, the importance of the black, Hispanic, youth, women and blue collar white worker votes, the role of corporation and special interests in American politics. Hutchinson goes to the heart of the matter to tell us what the first African-American to win the White House means to America and the world.

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2009-01-17T09:43:00.000-08:00

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2009-01-06T13:59:00.000-08:00

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Excerpts From How Obama Won

2009-01-05T18:28:00.000-08:00

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Book Summary -

How Obama Won

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Middle Passage Press, Los Angeles

January 2009

How Obama Won is a provocative, hard hitting critical assessment of the issues, events, forces, politics, pressures and controversy that shaped and ensnared Barack Obama in his historic 2008 presidential campaign.

Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson examines the impact of race and gender, campaign strategy, the key political players, the nature of presidential politics, the changes in the Democratic and Republicans parties, the importance of the black, Hispanic, youth, women and blue collar white worker votes, the role of corporation and special interests in American politics.

Hutchinson tells what the first African-American to win the White House means to America and the world.

How Obama Won

Hutchinson tells why:

Race was not a factor in Obama’s win

The Iraq war and the terrorism were not compelling issues in the campaign

Sarah Palin hurt McCain

Many blue collar whites and rural voters supported Obama

Obama was able to top McCain in fundraising

Ultraconservatives did not unite behind McCain

The economy ultimately sunk McCain

Obama’s win will and won’t change politics in America

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a nationally acclaimed author and political analyst.

He is a frequent guest analyst on:

The John Gibson Show

O'Reilly Show

Hannity & Colmes

Glenn Beck Show

PBS Lehrer Report,

NPR's Talk of the Nation

Various CNN News Shows.

He is the National Political Writer for New America Media and a regular contributor to: the Huffington Post, and BlackAmericaWeb.Com

Excerpts from How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Table of Contents -
http://learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com/2008/11/take-peek-inside-how-obama-won-by-earl.html

Introduction -
http://learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-obama-won-excerpt-from-introduction.html

Chapter 3 - It Was Still the Economy Stupid - http://learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-obama-won-excerpt-from-chapter-3.html

Chapter 4 - Team Obama’s Money Game Changer - http://learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-obama-won-excerpt-from-chapter-4.html

Chapter 5 The Catch 22 Black Vote -
http://learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-obama-won-excerpt-from-chapter-5.html

Chapter 10 - How Obama Snatched the Race Card off The Presidential Table - http://learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-obama-won-excerpt-from-chapter-10.html

Chapter 14 - The Clinton Factor
http://learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-obama-won-excerpt-from-chapter-14.html

Chapter 19 - Not Black President Obama, Just President Obama
http://learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-obama-won-excerpt-from-chapter-19.html

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How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Fun, Fair, Balanced & Objective

2009-01-04T15:00:00.000-08:00

How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Fun, Fair, Balanced & Objective

Now, I was not a fan of Barack Obama during the campaign, nor am I now. Yet, I can truly tell you that I am a big fan of political expert and writer, Earl Ofari Hutchinson. There is possibly no one in the current political circles who has written more profoundly and fairly about the constant waves of change in American politics than Earl Ofari Hutchinson. One of the best reasons I can give for my appreciation of Mr. Hutchinson is his new book, ‘How Obama Won.’ This excellent book is an interesting, fair, understandable and realistic account of the political race that propelled Barack Obama into the White House as America’s first African American President. It has to be one of the best records of this historic campaign that has been penned and perhaps into the future, making it a must read for opponents and supporters of Obama alike.

All of the material that Mr. Hutchinson wrote before Obama’s election can only be described as highly objective. He has kept that same approach to his writing in his new book, How Obama Won. One example that stood out to me was his statements about the current administration. Though, Hutchinson does not hide his opposition to President George W. Bush, he wrote his statements with clear reasoning and fresh objectivity. He does not come out with the horrific diatribes against Obama’s opponent either that so many other writers have used as obvious goals of simply besmirching rather than informing readers. I guess I can say that he does not seem to have any axes to grind, but just a public to inform. I find that exceptional and rare, indeed.

Now, I know there are those out there who will immediately say that they hate politics and will not take a good look at this type of book. Well, let me say that you will be very pleasantly surprised. How Obama Won comes across to the reader more like a true-life story that only America could produce. How Obama Won is full of unique and close-up information with great descriptions of the political and social twists and turns that made the 2008 Presidential election one of the most interesting and thrilling in the history of the nation. How Obama Won is a smart and thoughtful book, but it is also fun and takes the reader right into war rooms of Obama’s brain trust and that of his opponents’ campaigns.

I hope you will invest your time in this new and excellent report, How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson. You will never say that politics is boring again.

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Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson New Book How Obama Won Says Obama Election Honeymoon Will be Short-lived

2009-01-04T14:58:00.000-08:00

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Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson New Book How Obama Won Says Obama Election Honeymoon Will be Short-lived

Description: In his new book, How Obama Won, political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson says that President-elect Barack Obama’s smash White House honeymoon will be short-lived. The economy, the financial meltdown, the war, and looming foreign policy crises aren’t the only towering obstacles and challenges for Obama. He faces the challenge of meeting inflated public expectations of quick successes.

Political analyst and Huffington Post columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson’s in his new book How Obama Won says that President-elect Barack Obama’s smash White House election honeymoon will be short-lived. The economy, the financial meltdown, the war, and looming foreign policy crises aren’t the only towering obstacles and challenges for Obama. He faces the challenge of meeting inflated public expectations of quick successes.

Hutchinson examines the daunting problems that Obama faces in ending the war, promoting economic recovery, and developing polices that reverse the damage from Bush polices in dealing with looming foreign policy challenges.

Hutchinson says that Obama has one even more daunting task that Bush didn’t have. And that’s meeting the wildly high expectations that he can bring quick and immediate relief on the economy and a lasting resolution of the Iraq War.

Obama, Hutchinson, insists inadvertently created those soaring public expectations of miracle changes with his inspiring campaign pledge and promise of hope and change. That promise energized millions of black, Hispanic, youth, women, blue collar white worker and middle class voters to believe in the unthinkable, and that’s that an African-American could win the White House

“The biggest challenge that Obama faces is meeting the expectations of those who passionately believed in his message of change,” says Hutchinson, “If he falters the public honeymoon with him will be shorter than any of his predecessors.”
How Obama Won tells how and what he must do to make sure that the honeymoon lasts.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst and a Huffington Post columnist. He is the author of The Ethnic Presidency: How Race Decides the Race to the White House (Middle Passage Press, February, 2008).

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Review for How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

2009-01-01T17:35:00.001-08:00

How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
A Comprehensive Dissect of Obama's White House Win

I have to be honest that I’ve never followed politics for many reasons. But in the past year, I’ve worked with Earl Ofari Hutchinson, read four of his book and followed his blog posts. I can tell you that it has been a crash course in politics.

The unbiased details that he shares and the historic information that he provides to support his conclusions are fascinating to me because I love to learn the story behind the news. Earl Ofari Hutchinson is a nationally recognized political analyst and author who has had his finger on the pulse of the political system for years and he uses that experience to help the reader dissect Obama’s win.

That is also one of the things I really liked about his latest book, How Obama Won. So many things happened through the 20+ months of campaigning, that I had lost track of many of the details. Through the 20 chapters of this book, he starts with Obama announcing that he will run, his big and important win in the Iowa primary and brings the reader through the final days of the election. I was talking to a friend who was reading this and he mentioned that it felt like a friend was explaining the election to your personally.

In the pages of How Obama Won, Hutchinson discusses many things that helped propel Obama to victory and some things that had the potential to derail his candidacy. These topics include: the economy, fund raising, the black vote, Oprah’s support, “the Bradley Effect”, Jesse Jackson, Reverend Wright, the race issue, the Clintons, choosing the right vice president, Sarah Palin, Colin Powell, blue collar America, and more.

There are very high expectations for President Obama and his administration. This book is to the point and will take you back through the election process and remind you of the details that got Obama to his current position. Take a look back at this historic election that people will study for years to come. This is your chance to dissect Obama’s win. Sure Obama got more votes, but what lead up to him getting those votes? That’s what you learn in How Obama Won.

Review by Nikki Leigh

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2008-12-30T18:31:00.001-08:00

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson Interviews Jesse Jackson Live on Wednesday 5-6 pm PST

2008-12-30T18:22:00.000-08:00

Listen Live on Wednesday December 31st from 5-6 pm PST while Earl Ofari Hutchinson interviews Jesse Jackson Sr. Jesse Jackson Sr. speaks out on what civil rights leaders should ask and expect from President-elect Barack Obama. Jackson talks with KPFK-Pacifica's The Hutchinson Report host Earl Ofari Hutchinson.

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2008-12-29T08:57:00.001-08:00

How Obama Won is a provocative, hard hitting critical assessment of the issues, events, forces, politics, pressures and controversy that shaped and ensnared Barack Obama in his historic 2008 presidential campaign. Political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson examines the impact of race and gender, campaign strategy, the key political players, the nature of presidential politics, the changes in the Democratic and Republicans parties, the importance of the black, Hispanic, youth, women and blue collar white worker votes, the role of corporation and special interests in American politics. Hutchinson tells what the first African-American to win the White House means to America and the world.

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I'd like to talk with you about a guest post on your blog or in your newsletter. In return for hosting them on your site, I would promote you as part of the virtual tour. In January I'm working with Earl Ofari Hutchinson to promote his latest book How Obama Won. I've posted the book summary, author bio details, the table of contents and excerpts at http://www.learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com .

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I would welcome the opportunity to discuss this project with you in more detail. If that piques your interest, contact me and we can talk in more detail. We are also offering an affiliate program for the ebook and the print book. Affiliate details and the link to sign in are here http://learnhowobamawon.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-obama-own-affiliate-program.html

Print copies of How Obama Won are on order and all affiliates will be notified as soon as they arrive. We want to start posting information about the book as soon as possible and plan most of these posts to run through January 20^th. The posting may be extended after the inauguration, but that determination will be made around the 20^th. Any questions, let me know. Earl Ofari Hutchinson will appear on my radio show Monday January 19th at www.blogtalkradio.com/nikkileigh

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How Do You Think Obama Won?

2008-12-28T14:50:00.000-08:00

There are many theories from the media, the pundits, blogger and regular people about How Obama Won. Would you like to share your thoughts? Feel free to post your comments here and tell us what you think made the difference. What helped Obama win?

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2008-12-03T12:16:00.000-08:00

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2008-12-03T09:19:00.000-08:00

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2008-11-27T07:29:00.000-08:00

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Political Analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson New Book How Obama Won Dissects Obama’s White House Victory

Description: In his new book, How Obama Won, political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson gives a behind the scene political look at the forces, events, and players that shaped President-elect Barack Obama’s historic White House victory. In How Obama Won Hutchinson captures the full political drama and impact the Obama campaign had on the American electorate and political establishment.

Political analyst and Huffington Post columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson’s new book How Obama Won is the first book out the box of the many books that will be forthcoming on the historic White House win of Barack Obama. Hutchinson presents a provocative, hard hitting critical assessment of the issues, events, forces, politics, pressures and controversy, and the key players that shaped and ensnared Obama during the political game changing 2008 presidential campaign.

Hutchinson examines the impact of race and gender, campaign strategy, the major political players, the nature of presidential politics, the changes in the Democratic and Republicans parties, the importance of the black, Hispanic, youth, women, blue collar white worker and middle class vote, the role of corporation and special interests in the campaign as well as in American politics.

How Obama Won answers the one big question that dominated the political campaign. That is did Obama’s win really show that America had turned the corner on race?

Hutchinson assesses how Obama’s administration will deal with the crisis of the war and the economy, whether it can effectively fulfill the campaign promise of hope and change, and what world leaders can expect from his administration.

Finally, How Obama Won tells what the first African-American to win the White House means to America and the world.

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How Obama Won - Excerpt from the Introduction

2008-11-27T07:26:00.000-08:00

Introduction

How Obama Won the White House

A Pew Research Poll Center Poll in May 2008 found that "inspiring," “fresh," "change," and "visionary" were not the words that voters said best described Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama. The word was "inexperienced." Republican presidential rival John McCain made this and the boast that he was the best on national security, the terrorist fight and defense preparedness his attack mantra against Obama.

Obama had to parry the attack by turning the table and proclaiming that his lack of national and especially international experience was a positive. That he'd bring fresh ideas and approaches to statecraft to replace the old, tired, and failed polices of recent times. But that was not enough. He had to choose and choose carefully a vice presidential running mate who was every bit as hard nosed on national security, the war on terrorism and defense preparedness that McCain claimed to be. Then he had to convince voters that he would back up his pledge to bring an honorable and workable end to the Iraq war.

But it was still Bush and the GOP’s domestic fumbles that were potentially his biggest selling point.

How Obama Won - Excerpt from Chapter 3

2008-11-27T07:25:00.000-08:00

It Was Still the Economy Stupid

In a two minute nationally paid campaign broadcast billed as a "presidential style" talk to the nation in mid September, 2008, Obama talked about one issue, and one issue only, the economy. There wasn't much new in his talk. But it really didn’t have to be anything new. Polls by then showed the economy; or rather the train wreck of the economy was really the only thing on voter’s minds.

Obama again vowed to cut taxes for the middle-class, clean up Wall Street's mess, and create lots of jobs for everybody. He aimed to firmly seize back the high ground on the defining issue of economic misery of the middle and working class, the Bush-GOP caused economic misery that is. This was widely regarded as his sure fire ticket to the White House. It was a play on the old political truism that it's the economy stupid that wins or loses presidential elections.

From day one of campaign 2008 the enshrined article of political faith was that voters were so furious at Bush for causing massive plant closings, farm failures, corporate bungling, fraud and corruption, the housing collapse, soaring gas prices, and the wholesale flight of jobs to the far corners of the planet, that all a Democratic presidential contender had to do to win was pass the breath test on Election Day. It of course wasn’t quite that simple.

How Obama Won - Excerpt from Chapter 5

2008-11-27T07:23:00.000-08:00

The Catch 22 Black Vote

In exit polls before the May 6, 2008 North Carolina Democratic presidential primary nearly a quarter of black voters flatly said that race was the biggest factor in their vote. Obviously that meant race motivated them to vote for Obama. The percent of them who said race drove them to Obama dwarfed the percent of whites who said that race was a factor, and presumably that meant that they voted for Clinton.

The white and black racial divide was virtually frozen and predictable for Clinton and Obama from the start of their primary battles. More than ninety percent of blacks backed Obama and the overwhelming majority of whites backed Clinton. But it was his black support that was the most compelling and problematic for him and the Democrats.

Black Obama supporters treated has candidacy as a virtual messianic holy calling. Black church leaders came close to a dive off the deep end by shouting out his name with that of Jesus. Obama furor among blacks was so great that the not inconsiderable number of black Clinton supporters were bullied and harangued as racial traitors. Former BET founder and billionaire businessman Bob Johnson also took heavy heat from many blacks when he publicly went to bat for Clinton. The unprecedented chest thumping pride, even mania that Obama stirred among throngs of blacks was easy to understand. He was the Democrat that blacks desperately longed for to come along and wipe away the horrid taste of the Bush years. And he was a black man who they saw who could actually win the big prize.

How Obama Won - Excerpt from Chapter 4

2008-11-27T07:21:00.000-08:00

Team Obama’s Money Game Changer

September 15, 2008 was a rare day for Democratic Presidential contender Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain. They both lambasted the greedy and corrupt (their words) Wall Street wheeler dealers for wreaking financial mayhem and pain on Main Street. The tough talk grabbed headlines and made the two contenders sound like the proverbial men on the white horse populists ready to take on the Wall Street greed merchants.

There was one thing, however, conspicuously missing from their Wall Street assault. They didn't name the names of the greedy and corrupt executives or the malfeasant companies they blamed for causing the pain and suffering. In the days after the financial meltdown, they kept up their Wall Street attack, yet they still mentioned no names.

This was no politically absent minded oversight. The prime culprits in the financial mess were prime players on Team Obama and Team McCain. They were prime team players even after the roaring financial Tsushima hit.

How Obama Won - Excerpt from Chapter 10

2008-11-27T07:19:00.000-08:00

10.

How Obama Snatched the Race Card off The Presidential Table

A handful of top advisors in the McCain camp were perplexed at their boss’s flat refusal to again slam Democratic rival Barack Obama on his ties to his former pastor Jeremiah Wright. Instead they picked the race neutral target of former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, and tried to tie Obama to him. That ploy had no public or media legs.

A GOP official explained that McCain did dredge up the Wright-Obama connection because he did not want to be seen as a racist. That’s probably true. But in a close to the wire election, a candidate will grab at any weapon to get an edge, and the GOP has never flinched at using race as a weapon when it suited its purpose. And indeed McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin chomped at the bit to snatch at the Wright issue. But the word was hands off.

There are several reasons suggested why Palin and the GOP did not go for the racial jugular with Obama. One reason offered is that the GOP is smitten with racial guilt too. The idea that Obama benefits unduly from that was much talked about, and probably much overblown during the campaign.

How Obama Won - Excerpt from Chapter 14

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14.
The Clinton Factor

The clamor for an Obama-Clinton dream ticket started virtually the moment they started their head to head slog through the primaries and the caucuses from January through June, 2008. Top Democrats really wanted Clinton to do a full court campaign press for Obama. The idea was that Clinton as an Obama campaigner would be able to sway the millions of Democrats wavering, disgruntled, and even hostile Democrats to Obama.

However, the clamor for her as Obama's VP was absurd. The notion that she could cajole doubting Democrats to change their mind about Obama was shaky at best. First there was the notion of Clinton as VP. Obama effectively killed that when he appointed a Clinton-unfriendly committee to search out a VP pick. And it was just as well he did. A major McCain attack point against Obama was that he was a much too liberal Democrat, and an elitist, who was way out of touch with moderate-to-conservative mainstream America. Putting another liberal Democrat and a woman at that on the ticket, especially one with the towering negatives that Clinton had among ultraconservatives and Christian fundamentalists would have been the ultimate political gift from heaven to McCain.

How Obama Won - Excerpt from Chapter 19

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Not Black President Obama, Just President Obama

The instant that Obama tossed his hat in the presidential rink in February 2007 the twin mantra was that he could be the first black to be president and if that happened America had finally kicked its race syndrome. The twin mantra was repeated ad infinitum, and it was dead wrong about Obama and the presidency. The early hint that race was overblown and over obsessed came from Obama. He didn’t talk about it. For good reason, he was not running as a black presidential aspirant. He was running as a presidential aspirant. He had to make that crucial distinction for personal and political purposes.

The ritual preface of the word “black” in front of any and every achievement or breakthrough that an African-American makes is insulting, condescending and minimizes their achievement. It maintains and reinforces the very racial separation that much of America claims it is trying to get past. Dumping the historic burden of race on blacks measures an individual’s success or failure by a group standard.

That’s a burden whites don’t have. They succeed or fail solely as individuals.
Obama’s personal history--his bi-racial parents, his upbringing, his education, and his relative youth-- defied racial pigeonholing.

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Take a Peek Inside How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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To give you an idea of the topics that are covered within the pages of How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, we are giving you a look at the table of contents ---

Table of Contents

Introduction

How Obama Won the White House

1. Win Iowa or Lose the Nomination

2. The Four Lessons of Iowa

3. It Was Still the Economy Stupid

4. Team Obama’s Money Game Changer

5. The Catch 22 Black Vote

6. Oprah’s Obama Nudge

7. The Bradley Non-Effect

8. Jesse’s Obama Hit Was a Blessing in Disguise

9. The Reverend Wright Question Mark

10. How Obama Snatched the Race Card off the Presidential Table

11. si se puede

12. Obama the Racial Exception?

13. Exorcising the GOP’s Obama demon

14. The Clinton Factor

15. Shoring up the Vice Presidential Flank

16. The Palin Gamble

17. Colin Powell’s GOP Payback

18. Overcoming Obama’s Blue Collar Blues

19. Not Black president Obama, Just President Obama

20. What to Expect from an Obama White House

How Obama Won by Earl Ofari Hutchinson (Available January 2009)

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How Obama Won

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Middle Passage Press, Los Angeles

January 2009

Race was not a factor in Obama’s win

The Iraq war and the terrorism were not compelling issues in the campaign

Sarah Palin hurt McCain

Many blue collar whites and rural voters supported Obama

Obama was able to top McCain in fundraising

Ultraconservatives did not unite behind McCain

The economy ultimately sunk McCain

Obama’s win will and won’t change politics in America