Im a Canadian the work in the US for periods of time, I travel alot.

The big thing I dont understand is why are polls performed on race/age/economic status, etc? From what I see from the MSM, all the does is create big divides amongst different groups of my american friends?

IE "Im winning the poor white vote, hes winning the african american vote...blah blah blah)

Escapes me the logic in doing this, it divides up your country and makes for very ugly politics? Imagine those stats where NOT tracked, just who you voted for?

Thats how its done up here, and I cant imagine how ugly it would get if we did it the way our american friends do in the South. Can someone explain it to me to help me understand how it HELPS??

You may have heard that baseball is America's national pastime. Navel-gazing comes in a close second, especially by our media.

Obama 08!

Yeah, wellread. That's why everyone was so startled when Obama started talking, It was a good feeling. The good feeling was quickly mocked, "koolaid" etc., but that was bullshit.Because you know, it SHOULD be a good feeling. A relief. America isn't used to the idea that we could just openly stop the subculture/race/gender/class etc. identity wars. It would be truer to actual experience if we stopped pretending they were so real to people. I work mostly with conservative baptists and country folks and hell, in real life they have gay friends and pot-smoking friends and some are pro-choice and some are racist and some aren't and its actually all over the place. I'm a low-income boomer white woman and an Obama supporter all the way. I hate it when I'm noted as a Clinton type because of my age, race and gender. It is stupid. People are much more complicatd and spread out in their views than these stupid "demographics" suggest. Nobody is in these little boxes really, except fanatical dittoheads etc. Most of us have outgrown the little boxes. It's the TV, the papers and the right wing that somehow likes to sharpen these miserable and fake divisions. And it all self-fulfills somehow. Americans seem to be suggestible. That will be a great trait if Obama wins. We could grow up as a nation.