The Economy Trumps Race

According to Time. Because if the economy weren't so bad, all of us crackers out here in flyover country would just vote for the white guy. That's just how we are.

Ezra Klein puts it in interesting terms, saying explicitly that McCain will win whites but lose the presidency. If this happened, he would be the first candidate in US history to do so.

Given that Non-Hispanic whites are 68% of the popluation and African Americans are 12%, with Asians and Hispanics coming in at 5% and 15% respectively, how, exactly, does that work? Figures from Wikipedia, but feel free to use your own sources, you'll come up with similar numbers. Even if you throw in ACORN registering dead voters, much of the zombie vote will still consist of white people.

Obama may well win the election, if current tracking polls are any indication, and given the bi-partisan Communist agenda going on with congress and the current administration, I'm not sure it'll be that much different one way or the other (Walker may disagree). But he will have to win the white vote to do it. A president may well be elected without a majority of the white vote in 2050, but in 2008, you still have to win the caucasians to become president.