The Low Road Express

[Deckard]

Originally Posted by Sean

You keep hearing the assertion that "Obama is relatively unknown to voters" compared to McCain and other politicians, but the fact is, the majority of voters don't know crap about either because they don't bother to get themselves informed! Yeah Obama's unknown, but so is everyone else!

Exactly! I wouldn't want to overplay this, but race and (perception of closeness to a certain...) religion probably make Obama seem more of an unknown than McCain. Some people will continue to view him as "one of them" (or rather, "not one of us") despite having been told so much about him already. I wonder if "unknown" is just the diplomatic word for something else.

In addition to that, Obama hasn't been around as long as McCain so I guess there's that to factor into it too.

But really - in the 21st century, in the most developed country on the planet, with rolling news and internet, people have no excuse not to change that "unknown" to "known". I suspect some people just don't want to know.