Indiana counts; Blacks do not

Congratulations to Hillary Clinton for barely winning the state that is home to the Ku Klux Klan.

Was that an unfair shot? Sorry, I'm in a really good mood.

I'll leave the political spin to other people this time. There's plenty of it out there, and I have to say it looks pretty good for Obama. I would like to address something that isn't getting any coverage at all, though it should: the blatant racism of the Democratic party.

It was no big surprise when CNN called North Carolina for Barack Obama the moment the polls closed (thus legally permitting them to talk about their exit polls). What really got to me came moments later, as they started to examine the vote breakdown by race. Hillary Clinton won 61% of the White vote, leaving Obama with 37%. By contrast, Obama won 91% of the Black vote, with Clinton picking up just 7%. The pundits tipped the hat to Obama for not performing too abysmally with White voters, and then immediately moved to discussing the obvious problem here. Can you guess what the problem was? Obama isn't winning enough Whites.

Let's look at this again. Obama wins 37% of White voters. Clinton wins 7% of Black voters. Who has the bigger problem with appealing to a demographic here? Clinton always talks about how she's winning in groups that the Democrats need (never mind that come November, those blue-collar working class white guys will be voting for McCain). Guess what? The Democrats can't win in November without the Black vote.

Now you can brush off the problem as saying Obama gets so many Black voters because he's Black. Okay, maybe he does. Why, then, is a White person like Clinton failing to win her own race as overwhelmingly? Are White people less racist or something?

Alternatively, you can say what's really being implied by all this conversation - or lack thereof - and that is that we all know the Blacks will vote for the Democrat in November anyway. So much for Democrats not taking their vote for granted. And they shouldn't: the ONLY way Clinton can get the nomination is if the Superdelegates swing strongly to her, taking the nomination away from Obama, who will have more pledged delegates and, probably, a higher popular vote total. If that happens, I can guarantee you Black voters aren't going to be tripping over themselves to support her in the Fall.