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A Two-Fer! The Memes They Just Won’t Let Die – Dems Lost Because Americans Are Gun Toting Racist! UPDATED.

From Graaaaaydon Caaaaarter, the uber-sophisticate editor of…. Vaaaaaanity Fair:

Well, anger certainly continues to be all the rage in the corridors of American politics. Not to mention American corridors in general. Polls taken prior to the November midterm election indicated that a surprising number of Obama voters said they were going to vote Republican this time and an equally surprising number of McCain supporters said they would be backing Democratic candidates. What that is about, God knows. The general anti-Obama rage out there is palpable. But it’s no more virulent than the anti-Bush sentiment that has pervaded the country for much of the past decade—although this being America, there’s an attendant hatred for Obama that has more to do with race than anything else.

Uhm… Dude. Did the voters who vote for Obama but switched to Republicans this time, including half of the 31% of gays who voted Republican this time around, suddenly become racist?????  The esteemed Graaaaaydon Caaaaarter continues:

What makes today’s fury more worrying is the fact [?] that angry right-wing extremists tend to carry guns in disproportionate numbers to their liberal counterparts.

Can someone from NPR please explain to this erudite fellow that you can’t make these type of sweeping generalizations based on irrational… Oh. You can?… If it concerns angry white gun-totting bible-thumping male conservatives????

UPDATED: Via Glenn Reynolds, a link to Reason Hit and Run, documenting more stupid and inane post election coverage.