Rich Galen looks at the long term effects of the Clinton camp playing the race card on the Democratic Party:
On Fox Saturday night, Alan Colmes asked me what I thought about the issue of race in the Democratic primary in South Carolina.
I said I thought it was a good thing.
Later in the program, long after I had left the studio in Ft. Lauderdale, Michael Steele was on and Alan quoted my response. Steele, who now runs GOPAC, said that he thought I was wrong.
Let's understand what I was talking about.
Barack Obama kicked Hillary Clinton's you-know-what in the primary election in South Carolina.
He largely did it by getting something on the order of 85% of the Black vote and nearly a quarter of the White vote.
It was blatantly obvious that both Hillary and Obama were playing - as the Popular Press calls it - the Race Card.
Obama, in case you haven't noticed, is Black. Hillary, in case you haven't noticed, is very, very White.
I am not be in favor of using race as an issue in politics. But if Hillary and Barack want to use race as an issue (as they did in South Carolina) then that works to the benefit of the GOP because African-Americans are such an important part of the Democratic coalition.
If Black Democrats are largely Barack supporters and White Democrats are largely Hillary backers then this can only devolve to the benefit of the Republican nominee - whomever that turns out to be.
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