Stan McDougle

Obama seems like he's having trouble breaking from McCain in the polls. Could race be a factor?

Out and out racists were never planning on voting for Obama. But a lot of Americans have that low-grade racism running through their veins. They're cool with a black person as long as they seem "normal." Start piling on the otherness factors--a Muslim father, "foreign" name, Reverend Wright, an educated wife that isn't blonde--and suddenly they are "unsure" about him.

Perhaps Stan McDougle is a black man they could bring themselves to vote for.

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