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Racism backfires

Justin Webb | 21:23 UK time, Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Amid all the talk of white people who won't vote for Obama and how much of an issue this is is or is not, you have to wonder whether some of the attacks from outside the Democrats' camp in November might rebound against the attackers and rather assist the candidate.

seems typical of what he will face - and what his supporters already have to deal with as revealed in .

And yet after one of the driving forces behind Senator Allen's subsequent departure from politics was his abandonment by previous supporters, particularly white suburban women.

So attacks using race may well backfire on those who employ them - and benefit the Democrats in some of areas where they really do have to win...

UPDATE:

The news that John Edwards is backing Obama does nothing much for him it seems to me but does real damage to Hillary Clinton - nobody serious jumps onto a sinking ship.

She wants the superdelegates to believe Obama is a sinking ship. An already difficult case to make just got even trickier...

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