and it's in the undecided column where racism supposedly hides.

What a silly thing to say.
Boy, is he wrong about that.
As any undergrad with a single course in institutional racism to his credit knows,
As any person of color can tell you,
-racism hides itself in your university on the tenure committee, in your bank next to the loan officer's desk, on the Colonel's desk who passes you over for promotion, in the personnel office when layoffs are decided--

Those whose perceptions of people--and thus votes-- are altered by race are certainly not limited to undecideds. Sometimes they themselves don't know who they are---they just "Didn't feel right about him/her,"-- when it came down to actually pulling the lever.

I think time will show there are many, many of them.

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.

A mandate for a program of change is do-able NOW. All available evidence suggests that popular support for real change is strong. The economic oligarchy will never support real change. They have the power and the dough, and any ethic of communal responsibility- compassion for the "lower orders"- has long died in the world of the board room and the trading floor. So he cannot lose them by taking a chance--he never had them.

--If he has the "audacity". How do you guys do that superscript TM thing?

As many have pointed out, it will be easy to attack, to blame a black president. It's swimming down an old, foul stream--far easier than attacking a youthful, charismatic, WHITE Clinton.
-And, as you say,-look what happened there.

Obama's situation is similar in some ways to that faced by FDR, but Obama has a chance to begin his real race with a head start--and he will need it.

 

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.