I've seen a lot of passionate debate about issues that matter in the Dem primaries. Nothing below the belt--especially the supposedly 'racist' comments by the Clintons the Obama camp benefited by when playing the race card just before South Carolina.

But you know, both sides seemed to have pulled back their surrogates, and all has been fine since.

ObamaRon keeps claiming the race is nasty, because that is what worked in Obama's favor in the lead up to Feb 5th. Voters wised up, listened to what was actually said, and decided the 'Clintons are racist' claims were bullshit. So that didn't work anymore.

But hats off to Obama, it gave him the BigMo for long enough to pull ahead of Clinton.

However, it does seem that Homey don't play dat tune in the bigger states w/diverse populations. It is a whole lot harder to play the race card the way Obama played it (I call it his Beauty & Barber Shop Strategy) in the early southern primaries, because the big urban centers with bazillions of voters (as opposed to much smaller, far less urban populations in the south) are too savvy to fall for that sort of crap.