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I live in a small town and the people here who won't vote for Obama because he is an African-American would never have voted for a Democrat in the general election.
For some of his supporters to continually blame all of his problems on racism accomplishes nothing. No Democrat has won a majority of the white vote since LBJ, who said when he signed the Civil Rights Bill that he had lost the South for the Democratic party for a generation.
Obama and Biden need to focus on the voters they can win, and with the help of Bill and Hillary Clinton, I think they can reach many of those who are still on the fence, particularly women who will realize when they read more about her positions that Sarah Palin is not somebody we can identify with on the issues.
But please stop making it all about race because it isn't. If America was as bigoted as these people seem to think, he would never have become the nominee.
