In an interview with National Journal Contributing Editor Linda Douglass that airs today, Gary Hart , a Barack Obama backer, makes a couple interesting assertions:
Assuming Hillary Clinton does not have the most delegates by convention time, she should be allowed to place her name in nomination and then graciously cede to Obama at the convention.
And Hart said that if the results in PA and NC are racially-polarized, it may reveal a general election vulnerability about Obama that Democrats should consider.
Q: You know the pundits and the political operatives are all saying that Obama’s prospects have been badly damaged by the Reverend Wright controversy- and that whites are less comfortable with him than they used to be. So if Pennsylvania has a racially polarized outcome, and then if North Carolina, which Obama is expected to win, has a racially polarized outcome. Does that reveal a general election vulnerability that the Democrats should consider about him?
A: I think it would. But on the other hand, as a supporter of his, I hold out a remote hope that he might win Pennsylvania. Now I’m probably alone in that prospect. But the polls are narrowing. And you could reverse that question and say, in spite of the sort of psycho-drama, I think over-inflated, about reverend Wright, endlessly looped for a week or two on the cable networks. What if he proves that the damage to White voters’ support was not affected- that there was no damage, and went ahead to demonstrate strength across the racial boundaries. I think all that says is, many people in the media overplayed that story.
Q. But if the reverse is true, that is, if it is racially polarized?
A. Then it’s a problem. Then it’s a problem..
Posted at 11:47 AM
Assuming Hillary Clinton does not have the most delegates by convention time, she should be allowed to place her name in nomination and then graciously cede to Obama at the convention.

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