"Obama's worst mistake has been to misread the election results. Much is
made that he got more white votes than John Kerry or Al Gore, revved up
young whites, and totally exorcised race from the campaign. Obama's win
supposedly was final proof that America had finally kicked the racial
syndrome. This is the stuff of media talk and wishful thinking. Despite
a GOP racked by sex and corruption scandals, an anemic presidential
opponent, a laughingstock vice presidential candidate, a collapsed
economy and an outgoing GOP president with a rating worse than Herbert
Hoover's, McCain still crushed Obama by a twelve point spread among
white voters."
Why the Right is Winning Its War Against Obama by Earl Ofari Hutchinson