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It is sad to think that race is still a huge problem in America, but it is. If a man with Obama's background and superb campaign was white, there would be a big shift in the polls. Sadly, millions of Americans would rather vote for an old has-been verging on senility than vote for a black man, and the Republicans are counting on this as usual. They would rather vote for the dumb guy they want to have a beer with than an intellectual with a Nobel Prize. This is turning out to be an election between the educated and the uneducated. I am personally tired of being held hostage these last eight years by religious fanatics with little education that are too insecure to vote for someone who doesn't look like them.
