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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."

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"I don't think that it is race. I think this is an issue of the nation's security."

From Larry King Live (transcript):

I think there are a lot of people out there that are soft on their support for Obama. I think there are a lot of people who have stayed in neutral that are moving to John McCain because they want to be certain somebody's going to focus on the security issues, national security, energy security, economic security.

KING: How much of it, sadly, do you think is race?

BLACKBURN: I don't think that it is race. I think this is an issue of the nation's security. People are very, very concerned about what is happening to our nation's economy. They're concerned about the cost of energy and we hear it every day.