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Sam Stein on HuffPo today writes about George Will’s comments on the Powell endorsement of Obama. There will be “some impact,” Will declared. “And I think this adds to my calculation — this is very hard to measure — but it seems to me if we had the tools to measure we’d find that BarackContinueContinue reading “George Will: Country Eager to “Feel Good About Itself” by Voting for a Black Man”

Newsweek’s Howard Fineman seems to have boiled down the presidential contest to a battle between the Bradley Effect and the Facebook effect. “But this year there is another force at work: young voters, especially those under 30. Most of them are more or less oblivious to race in their political thinking. They have grown upContinueContinue reading “Bradley vs. Facebook Effect”

“McCain dumps racial-joking campaigner” is the title of Mark Silva’s post yesterday on the Chicago Tribune’s Swamp politics blog.  Silva’s post cites an earlier post by Don Frederick of the Los Angeles Times on the subject, which is titled “John McCain backer dropped from Virginia campaign team due to racially tinged column.” The story isContinueContinue reading “What’s the difference between a “racial joke” and racism?”