There is no doubt there has been racial progress--more than there has been for women, if we are to judge by this race.

But looking at the race through those sorts of lenses is just playing the hierarchy of suffering game, IMO, and is really not helpful.

My point is--the African Americans Obama is winning with are very, very conservative voters. Which makes sense, because he is conservative too.

But when 9 out of 10 black voters go for the black candidate over a previously VERY popular white candidate, well. It is very hard to make a cogent argument they aren't voting race, IMO.

The Obama campaign keeps saying it doesn't matter they haven't won in the big urban areas and states, because all those Clinton voters will go to him in the general. Clinton campaign claims mostly the same thing, except they add that Obama's ability to win the red states won't matter in the general because those states will likely go Republican anyway.

Time will tell. Too much unknown right now to call it either way. But if I were a betting man, my chips would still be on Clinton to take PA, and enough of the superdelegates at the convention to win it. Eventually. After god only knows how many ballots.