White Voters

Political scientist John B. Judis has a New Republic piece which seems to say that Obama surely cannot win the presidency against McCain -- especially after his San Francisco comments.

In the fierce campaign between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, a battle dominated by questions of race and gender, white men have emerg...

Pundits focus on women, African Americans and Latinos. What about the white male? In the privacy of the voting booth, where will the white men go in November? Hillary Clinton should be worried.

The Bradley Effect is the label for the penchant of white voters to deceive pollsters when they tell them that color doesn't mean anything to them in an election -- and it's alive and well.

Younger black activists and elected officials are unlikely to feel any loyalty to the Clintons, are engaged by a post-baby-boom candidate and feel more in sync with Obama on the issues.

Hillary has begun a campaign based on rigorous 1990s politics of identity, a game at which the Clintons excel, using one group against another as the need arises.

An Iowa win won't do for Obama what it did for Kerry, but to put it bluntly it will give a hint whether he can get a majority or at least a significant percent of whites to vote for him.