I didn't understand Groucho's response to me. I didn't say or imply anything about Obama getting the nomination because of his name or race. I was just jokingly pointing out that if he was white and had a "whiter" name and was a woman, well he'd be Hillary as she was the only other option besides him.

The thing that turned me off Hillary was her campaign. Taking her just as herself as she is now or last year, she seems like the best choice - but wow, that Karl Rovian campaign she ran...ugh.

Still, Obama should have chosen her in order to unite the party. It doesn't matter if they don't like each other, Reagan and Bush didn't like each other in '80 either. Biden has his good aspects though, I'm not saying he sucks.

If Edwards hadn't had an affair he had been the best choice, but he ruined himself there. I do like that views of the study. It is telling that when they mentioned it looked at all adults. Since at least 40% of the population won't vote it makes some doubt on that survey. I also don't think the really racists in this country don't vote, but they generally hate this country.

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What do you mean? The racists i am referring too are those who belong to the Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the skinheads. Those guys never vote because they think the country is run by the Jews. I guess I am also optimistic about our country and hope those guys make up a decent chunk of the racists. I feel/hope that the % racist registered voters it is a much smaller than the one mentioned in that study. Or are you talking about of the percentage of people who vote because that figure is true. Last election 54% of the registered voters voted. I am hoping it can get it over 60% again.

Well we don't know for sure do we. I do think things have gotten better since the 50's-60's. You don't see that many lynchings or things like that any more. The fact Obama is in this position shows times have changed. I say you could have anywhere from 10-25% of whites are racists. I can't believe it is more than that.

It is still better than 30 years ago. They are sent to the back of the bus and stuff like that. I still think things have improved and are improving especially with younger people. I think in a couple of generations, racism won't be much of a problem. And there is nothing wrong with being an optimist.

i'm not saying its not better then 30 years ago and i'm not saying it hasn't improved. But thinking that the only racists left are the KKK and hate groups is just plain out insane and ignorant.

Barack Obama, the first black major party nominee, is positioned to win the largest share of white voters of any Democrat in more than three decades, according to an exclusive Politico analysis of recent Gallup and Pew Research Center polling. The most recent two weeks of Gallup polling, which includes roughly 13,000 interviews, show 44 percent of non-Hispanic white voters presently support Obama — the highest number for a Democrat since 47 percent of whites backed Jimmy Carter in 1976. Until the stock market swoon in mid-September, Obama had never reached 40 percent among white voters.

No Democrat has won a majority of white voters since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. John McCain has shuffled between 48 percent and 50 percent support in recent weeks — which would be the lowest share for a Republican candidate in a two-man race since Barry Goldwater's run. If Obama's share holds, it would top the 43 percent of white voters who backed Bill Clinton in 1996, when the Democrat won a plurality among white females and 38 percent of white men, the best performance by a Democrat in all those categories since 1976.