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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk
I meant that it's simplistic to boil it down to race. Just because seemingly "racist redneck hicks" are attempting to assassinate him, it's not necessarily because of the color of his skin but could be due to his dangerous, disruptive, and embarrassing policies.
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How many assassination attempts have there been on any other candidate in the past, say, 20 years? How many candidates have been viewed as "radical/dangerous/disruptive" in either direction? It sure seems like one answer is "0" and the other is "certainly not 0" . . .
In your quest to avoid "oversimplification" it sure seems like you're ignoring the clear solution under Occam's Razor. You really think dudes with ties to white supremacist/neo-Nazi organizations are worried about Obama's stance on public finance or welfare compared with the very real threat of a Black man leading in every major poll?