How will race affect Barack Obama's candidacy?

<< Democratic Candidates

Recent Opinions

Matthew Dowd
	Race will have no effect on Barack Obama's candidacy. Race will make no difference in this race...
	11/4/2008 3:35:16 PM

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
	Race will have no effect on Barack Obama's candidacy. Almost incidental to most Americans
	10/27/2008 4:29:07 PM

Charles Barkley
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. "No question" people will vote against Barack because hes black
	10/27/2008 4:28:45 PM

Chris Rock
	Race will have no effect on Barack Obama's candidacy. "I just hope that at least the Democrats are mature enough and get over whatever's bugging them to support a fellow Democrat"
	10/27/2008 3:34:21 PM

Jason Whitlock
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. it's depressing that it's actually working.
	10/27/2008 3:24:53 PM

Ben Stein
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. "...there are people that will vote against Obama because of his race."
	10/27/2008 2:50:57 PM

George Will
	Race will positively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. It seems to me if we had these tools to measure, we'd find that Barack Obama gets two votes because he's black for every one he loses because he's black.
	10/27/2008 2:49:33 PM

Newt Gingrich
	Race will positively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. The Obama effect is real and legitimate. It's authentic.
	10/27/2008 2:49:06 PM

Leonard Greene (journalist)
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. And a race that's much closer than it should be.
	9/5/2008 6:56:54 PM

Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
	Race will have no effect on Barack Obama's candidacy. "I don't think that it is race. I think this is an issue of the nation's security."
	9/3/2008 1:35:39 PM

Michael Reagan
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. "It's really interesting because all during the primaries race was on the side of the Democrats. Bill Clinton was a racist. Everyone was a racist."
	9/2/2008 10:39:44 PM

Roger Cohen
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. Obama must overcome race barriers
	9/1/2008 4:29:14 PM

Bob Herbert
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. "Surmounting [the race issue] will be tough."
	9/1/2008 4:26:38 PM

Bill Maher
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. "That's a big factor, much bigger than people think, I believe."
	8/23/2008 1:05:07 PM

Peter Beinart
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. Race is weighing Obama down and McCain campaign insists on making it an issue
	8/19/2008 11:20:16 AM

Anna Quindlen
	Race will positively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. "He has turned his particular version of the race card into an ace and is using it to play with the full deck"
	8/15/2008 4:57:12 PM

David Brooks
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. Why isn’t Barack Obama doing better? race [has something to do with it]
	8/11/2008 2:08:10 PM

David Gergen
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. "I also think race is a factor right now in why the gap is so small."
	8/6/2008 1:53:55 PM

Sylvester Brown Jr.
	Race will negatively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. Race is still Obama's handicap.
	7/30/2008 12:57:51 PM

Gary Kamiya (journalist)
	Race will positively affect Barack Obama's candidacy. "As a black man offering reconciliation, he is making a deeply personal connection with whites, not merely a rhetorical one"
	7/26/2008 2:45:41 PM