Revisiting Real Americas.

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Sarah Palin wouldn’t recognize these places. [...]

About Last Night.

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Together with one of the most hard-nosed campaigns in recent memory, Obama managed to bounce back from the nadir of 2011 to one of the broadest re-election victories in recent memory. At this point, news networks have called New Hampshire, Iowa, Wisconsin, Colorado, Nevada, Virginia, and Ohio for [...]

Your Random-Ass Roundup: The Wait on Their Shoulders.

For lots of poor and working-class people, voting is a choice between casting a ballot or getting a day’s pay for work. [...]

It’s Only Identity Politics When They Do It.

The Washington Post says that 91 percent of Romney voters are white. Why isn’t Romney’s concerted courtship of white folks considered playing identity politics? [...]

Your Random-Ass Roundup: Mia Love’s Racial High-Wire Act.

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While Mia Love’s victory would be a milestone, her candidacy encapsulates a lot of the practical and ideological obstacles the GOP faces in becoming less white. [...]

White Woman Wears Afro, Life Changes. Or Something.

There’s a white woman running around New York in a big black afro wig because she thinks it’s teaching her something about herself and the world and how she sees it and how it sees. She blogs about it sometimes on her website, Before and Afro. [...]

Don’t Call It a Comeback. (No, Seriously. Don’t.)

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brutal 12 days in which he hemmorhaged his once-considerable national lead, President Obama got some good news: he’s eked out tiny advantages among likely voters in both the ABC/Washington Post and Politico/GWU polls. Here’s the takeaway from the first poll:

Likely voters give Obama the [...]

Do Black People Support Obama Because He’s Black? (Why Are We Still Having This Conversation?)

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Urban League Convention at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La., July 25, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

The AP concern-trolls about whether black people side with President Obama because he’s black [...]