Carnival Game Shoots Darts at Obama Likeness

The head of a Pennsylvania amusement company has yanked a carnival game in which players shot foam darts at an image resembling President Barack Obama.

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Notice only two people are out of frame. The rest of the room is for Obama. Pennsylvania... check!

No Surprises Here: Racial Attitudes, Racist Whites Pose Big Challenge for Obama, Democrats

By: Charles Babington, Associated Press

GREENSBURG, Pa. - (AP) Joyce Susick is the type of voter who might carry Barack Obama to the White House -- or keep him out. A registered Democrat in a highly competitive state, she is eager to replace George W. Bush, whom she ranks among the worst presidents ever.

There's just one problem.

"I don't think our country is ready for a black president," Susick, who is white, said in an interview in the paint store where she works. "A black man is never going to win Pennsylvania."

Susick said her personal objection to Obama is his inexperience, not his color. "It has nothing to do with race," she said.

If Susick is right about Pennsylvania voters, it presents a major hurdle for the presumed Democratic nominee. Democrats have carried Pennsylvania in the last four presidential contests, and Obama would have to offset a loss of its 21 electoral votes by taking Republican-leaning states from John McCain.

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Young staffers talk about anti-black sentiment on campaign trail; GA restaurant blasted for selling Obama/Curious George t-shirt.

The Washington Post recently featured an article about young campaign supporters of the Democratic candidate who encountered racist attitudes and anti-black sentiment while working in small, rural, white towns across Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio – all states won by Sen. Hillary Clinton in the primaries.


In the factory town of Muncie, Ind., Danielle Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Barack Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot. "The first person I encountered was like, 'I'll never vote for a black person,'" recalled Ross, a onetime university student who is white and just turned 20. "People just weren't receptive."


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...Doors have been slammed in their faces. They've been called racially derogatory names (including the white volunteers). And they've endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from people who can't fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African American president. The contrast between the large, adoring crowds Obama draws at public events and the gritty street-level work to win votes is stark. The candidate is largely insulated from the mean-spiritedness that some of his foot soldiers deal with away from the media spotlight.


Victoria Switzer, a retired social studies teacher, was on phone-bank duty one night during the Pennsylvania primary campaign. One night was all she could take: "It wasn't pretty." She made 60 calls to prospective voters in Susquehanna County, her home county, which is 98 percent white. The responses were dispiriting. One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn't possibly vote for Obama and concluded: "Hang that darky from a tree!"

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