Oh yeah!!

Gergen's got it dead on. For months I've been saying that Obama's race is going to be a negative factor for a significant amount of white voters. It seemed to be a taboo to mention it. A lot of supporters seemed to not want to admit it for fear of letting some sort of genie out of the bottle. It's about class I would hear.

That was all horseshit. I'd hear people say that they wouldn't vote for Obama because he'll do things only for black people. Where was the evidence? There was none. I saw that a woman wrote into a Sunday morning political talk show and said that she was for Obama until he saw her with Oprah and figured that he'd do too pro-black. I thought how idiotic, but a red flag went up.

All four commentators are correct. NOW is the time to start condemning the fact that people won't cast a vote for a black person. And, yes, McCain should do that too.

These people who vote against Barack Obama shouldn't be conveniently dismissed as Republicans or conservatives. They're often not. Nor should they be taken lightly. They form a significant percentage of the population in swing states. Hell, 21% of her vote alone was about 100,000 people.

The Obama campaign is going to have to develop some serious strategies to overcome and work around this crap.