papanonook, your first comment hits it on the head and I see everyone thus far agrees, Not only is Hillary playing the race card but she is presenting the USA as overwhelmingly concerned with race in this presidential race, when the opposite is more true.

The media also feeds into this.

Stat-wise I had this thought: Obama gets 42% of white votes; Hillary gets 58%...well...maybe just like 42% of those "white voters," voted for Obama because they life his positions, views, policies, attitude, etc...

So then say 42% of those "white voters," voted for Hillary because they liked her ideas, etc.

So...that means it's really only a hard core of 16% of whites (esp. white men) who are hard-core ag...

papanonook, your first comment hits it on the head and I see everyone thus far agrees, Not only is Hillary playing the race card but she is presenting the USA as overwhelmingly concerned with race in this presidential race, when the opposite is more true.

The media also feeds into this.

Stat-wise I had this thought: Obama gets 42% of white votes; Hillary gets 58%...well...maybe just like 42% of those "white voters," voted for Obama because they life his positions, views, policies, attitude, etc...

So then say 42% of those "white voters," voted for Hillary because they liked her ideas, etc.

So...that means it's really only a hard core of 16% of whites (esp. white men) who are hard-core against having a Black president.

Well...maybe that's true; but that means the other 84% didn't have it as issue #1. And this is certainly better than slave days or days when blacks coudn't even vote.

#2 > White voters against Obama is not as strong as Jewish majority against Obama or Catholic majority against Obama; Catholics have been polled as 71% against Obama.

Why? I haven't a clue since on abortion, which I'd figure is a Catholic issue, Hillary and Obama have the same position.

Finally, I think there must be some overlap in these catagories and I don't totally trust them, like (with no offense), maybe Catholics in these states all don't have college education, earn less than $50,000 a year and work at blue-colar jobs. >>??
(Not to say that some Catholics have college degress, make good bucks and got white collor jobs...um...but the point being that maybe in the polls pleople are voting for OTHER reasons than religion, or other reasons than race.

Jews, I think, BTW, it's pretty clear they see Hillary Clinton as more supportive of Israel, although even Obama has done their song and dance, as it probably required in politics at this moment.