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It shows that a substantial portion of white Americans still harbor negative feelings toward blacks. It shows that blacks and whites disagree tremendously on how much racial prejudice exists, whose fault it is and how much influence blacks have in politics.

One result is that Barack Obama's path to the presidency is steeper than it would be if he were white..."

I guess it was bound to happen, this officially enters race into the election. No more beating around the bush or 'code words'. FWIW, most of the commentators think the actual poll numbers are 'inaccurate' to 'overblown'.

Let's suppose Obama loses, will racism be the excuse the Democrats use to explain the loss and make themselves feel better? Is this the groundwork for the 'what happened' analysis? Will DNC lawyers converge on every district with close results to claim voter fraud, intimidation, or anything else they can think of to change the results (in the '06 mid-term elections it was reported that the DNC was prepared to dispatch 2000 lawyers to any precinct where a Democrat was expected to win and didn't; there were no issues because the Dems took the House and Senate)?