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Martin Baxter

wrote:
Looking from the outside, it looks like the Democrats are beating
themselves with a stick. Slinging mud at each other,,,McCain must be
chuckling at the ineptitude. The single biggest thing that is being
demonstrated in primary after primary is that America is still
fundamentally racist,

There are numbers to support that contention, but you could also look
at it the other way. Enough people have broken away from the pea-
brained bigotry of our caveman ancestors that the U.S. could have a
black President by this time next year.

Perhaps I should have been more clear, I didn't really mean white
racism, but rather black. Many white dems were quite happy to vote for
Obama, but among black voters, particularly southern black voters, the
crossover rate seems a lot less, at least from a cursory glance at the
numbers. In other words a lot of folks who voted for the colour of
Obamas skin rather than his politics.

Cheers
Marty