Just before Barack Obama first won the presidency, I was covering John McCain’s rallies in Kentucky. The people I met there convinced me that McCain might win, that this was no done deal. I was working with a writer who happened to be black – David Matthews – and at one rally we were pulled aside by a tall scary blonde man who seemed to have come straight from The Lodge in Twin Peaks. Did we want to meet the senator? Did we want to get up close and personal? We found ourselves seated very near McCain among the few Latino and black people who were also at the rally, so that the cameras could home in on what looked like “diverse” support.
The crowd was largely white, of course, and it was the mention of Sarah Palin that really got them excited: “Drill, baby, drill,” they kept screaming. Palin, McCain’s running mate, had no time for environmental concerns and had promised offshore drilling for oil.
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