Last January I made three political predictions:
1. I predict that Barack Obama will not be the next president of the United States.
2. I predict that the next president of the United States will not be a Republican.
3. I predict that the Republican nominee will not be a Mormon.
Well, okay, I didn’t miss the boat completely, I was 2/3 right! Of course, I was wrong about the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. At the time I felt that it was more likely that we would have a woman president than the first black president. I believed that the cultural barriers faced by Mr. Obama were too great to overcome.
I am so glad that I was wrong. However, if one can trust exit polling, white Americans voted for John McCain. It was a multi-racial coalition that gave President-elect Obama his victory.
Another point I made in January. John McCain’s loss makes it unlikely that any person born in the 1930s will be elected President of the United States. I wonder if it has something to do with that generational cohort being born and raised in the aftermath of the great depression? Likewise, we have yet to elect a president from the 1950s. There is still a chance that might happen. In 2012, someone born in 1950 will be 62, a reasonable presidental age.
For those of us that believe that prayer makes a difference, it is time to pray for the president-elect and for our country. With so much turmoil it would be well if providence intervened.
About Charlie Wear
how scarey is that if the majority of white voters haven’t voted for obama the great victory in the fight against prejudice is hollow and rather we’re seeing a polorisation of the races rather than a coming together