Average "white guy"?

I was just watching Hardball and was amazed that Obama is being put into this box of not connecting with the average "white guy".

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This doesn't make any sense to me. He's a guy. Why do you have to be white to understand a guy's point of view? Now, if it's the average woman's point of view, it would make more sense as you'd have to be a woman to fully understand her view, but a guy's point of view?

Why is this constantly about race? Do black guys view things completely different than white guys? Do they think about their family's differently? Paying their bills, getting their cars fixed, loving their mothers, caring for their sick children, locking their doors at night, going to work every day differently?

McCain, on the other hand, must have problems connecting with the average guy, black or white. He comes from a long line of upper-rank military members, he marries a model, then leaves her for a beer heiress, and he's rich, rich, rich.

I have not seen one poll that focuses on these issues for McCain. Why is that? I won't look at Obama as a black man. I look at him as a man, and I just can't understand why they focus on his being black.

Why do they even seek out white people to poll for these things anyway?? Why not poll all doctors, people with blond hair, people who wear glasses, people who prefer their coffee black, or people who drink their beer from a bottle instead of from a glass?

Well, that's about how much sense the average "white guy" poll makes.

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