Reply #48: This article proves that Ferraro is wrong. [View All]

[woolldog]

If Obama were a white man he would've wrapped up this race already.

Just look at the margins he's beating her by in all white states. If, as the article suggests, the reason he fares poorly in mixed states is due to his race, then when you eliminate the race factor, which is what happens in all white state (according to the author), he wins handily.

That said, I'm not sure that I buy the article entirely. I think Obama's message doesn't really play well to downscale, blue-collar whites. Didn't Jesse Jackson do well in Ohio and Michigan? among the same demographic that Obama is losing now? So I think there's more going on than just race.