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February 5th, 2008

MSNBC has been kind enough to put their Super Tuesday telecast up for free online, and Obama looks to have done really well in Georgia, winning 86 percent of African Americans, and 43 percent of the white vote. Several commentators seem genuinely moved that an African American has been able to capture the vote of over 4 in 10 white Americans from the deep South.

I’m worried that this is going to raise expectations too high, but it is exciting news nonetheless. Even MSNBC is excited, and not in some stir up ratings sense. History in the making. I think the vivid memories and pictures of the resistance to the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s make racism a more attention-grabbing obstacle to overcome than sexism. It seems fitting with the ongoing struggle for women that even while making history they must play second fiddle to a man making history.

Anyway, here’s to a historic night for Obama.

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