Statistics about race relations in America (they're not good).

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22. McCain's selection of Palin was a cheap stunt

that failed for him (although she continues to profit from it). Particularly when you had GOP women like Kay Bailey Hutchinson who might have made the race more formidable.

And I don't know about this "talked a good game" bit but in his previous electoral positions (whether as U.S. Senator, or moreso as an IL State Senator) Barack Obama had a record. I have been looking for this chart for a LONG time after I first encountered it either here on DU or elsewhere, and finally found it as part of responding to this post!



(Credit to NY Times July 29, 2007 - http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/07/29/us/politics/20070730_OBAMA_GRAPHIC.html)

If anything, I always felt that this showed where his focus was prior to coming into the Presidency and that is what he essentially got to early on.... the very thing that the GOP has been unrelenting in its attacks against (including yesterday's vote for a lawsuit, which once more, relates back to the ACA like the other 54-some votes against it).