A new pollsuggests that Barack Obama would get a six percent bump in the polls if white Democrats got over their age-old bigotry.  But check out the graph (a little down the page on the left) and consider the enormous fissure separating white Democrats from white Republicans.  If you think the Democrats have issues . . . 

Last night I was at a high school football game registering new voters.  We had a good evening–over thirty people registered.  Since you never know who is registered and who isn’t, we asked everybody if they would like to register to vote.  Black people typically smiled and announced proudly that they were registered and ready.  We got the same reaction from most working class whites, though in more muted form.  I couldn’t help noticing, however, that we received a lot of suspicious glances from the more affluent faces in the crowd. 

I wondered what these people were thinking.  A question from one man provided a likely answer. “If I sign up,” he said, “does that mean I have to vote like ya’ll?”

To understand the question you have to understand that Nancy and I were the only white people working the booth–everyone else was Black. 

Please check out this troubling story and give us your reaction: http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-obama-race.