Where's the Landslide?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/05/opinion/05brooks.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=david-brooks&st=cse&oref=slogin
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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:37 AMSubject: Where's the Landslide?To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: As mr. Brooks observes "This should be a Democratic wipeout". Withtwo unpopular wars sustained only by stop-loss orders, with the dollardebased, a shrinking job-market and growing numbers of Americanslosing their homes, this presidential contest should be an electionthat no Republican can win. So what is the intangible element on theother side? It's hard to count the closet bigots who will never votefor a black man. They have learned to encode this in ways that won'tget them in trouble, but they continue to base the important decisionsabout our nation's direction on racist beliefs from another century.Mr. Brooks feeds these people rationales for their votes that to masktheir racism, but he offers neither news nor analysis for this paper'sreaders.Barry Levine1142 Brown AveLafayette, CA 94549