Reply #31: Not sure the NC/VA difference is attributable to them [View All]

David Sirota has noted that the higher the black percentage of the primary electorate, the lower the white percentage for Obama. Only states in a danger zone where the white racists are not quite outnumbered by the black vote-- OH, PA, IN-- are unwinnable for Obama. (I'm not saying that white Virginians in general are less racist than whites in OH, PA, IN, but our racists are a lot less likely to call themselves Democrats.) The Clintons have certainly poisoned the Democratic party's internal race relations unconscionably. But I'm not sure they made the NC white voters more racist than they would have been; Obama's victory in VA and MD would always have been bigger than in NC.