NY Times Goes Hunting for Racist 'Ultraconservatives' in Ohio
Who Won't Support Obama  The New York Times sent reporter
Sabrina Tavernise to the battleground state of Ohio, to the
blue-collar town of Steubenville in pursuit of a pet theory:
Barack Obama may struggle to win because some whites are racist.
Tavernise starts by suggesting this could be a problem with
Democrats, but “ultraconservatives” quickly surface.  The locals
were most quotable in the Times when made undocumented
suggestions like “you had all these whites saying, ‘Oh, there’s
another vote from some drug addict.’” They also associated the
notion of racial discrimination in job interviews with anti-
Obama sentiment:      Franciscan University is a very
traditional Catholic college (my son attended it for a year).
It’s very pro-life, so it would make sense that Montgomery might
not be your ideal Obama voter in 2008. But did she say
“ultraconservatives,” or is the Times suddenly projecting?  Here
was Tavernise’s methodology in her hunt for racism