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Entry: "Chaos" or Obamania? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/chaos_or_obamania#25613 Post contents: Richard, Obama got over 91% of the black vote here in North Carolina, and blacks made up over one third of the Democratic turnout--the reason Obama won big here. But he got only 38% of the white Democratic vote. Unafiliated voters could vote in either primary, and they broke for Obama, but not by a large margin. Registered Republicans could not vote in the Democratic primary. If the black vote had been evenly proportioned Clinton would have taken this state. What happened here is the clearest identification that race, gender, and class, now more than ever, determine political outcomes. Those who pretend that isn't true, are dreaming. This nation is a fragamented bunch of competing interest groups--divided racially, as well as by income, region, etc.--and the "great black hope"--Obama--is not the "messiah" to change that. Rather, he only deepens those divides. Sent at: 2008 08 30