Yes, Race really does matter. Race decisively favors Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. Andrew Kohut, President of Pew Research Center in Washington, DC writes that “56 percent of Democrats believe that many people will not vote for Barack Obama because he is an African American.” Barack Obama is the first African American presidential candidate. There are two notions in the upcoming election, One that is there are many white voters that are “closet racist” and will not vote for Obama because of him being non white & two that public opinion polling cannot be trusted because of some white voters afraid to reveal there prejudice. Some respondents believe that being an African American would help him as opposed to hurt him in this election.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/does-race-really-matter/?ref=opinion
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