Juan Williams: Pundit, Please!

So this morning I hear Juan Williams talking on NPR about how only black people vote for Obama.

He didn’t say it quite like that but that really was his main point. Black people vote for Obama, white people (and Latinos and Asians, according to Juan) vote for Clinton. It was like a five minute piece of “analysis” which went on and on and on about the racial divide between Obama and Clinton.

This is the day after Obama crushed Clinton in Maine.

And two days after he crushed her in Nebraska. Which joins Idaho, Minnesota, North Dakota, Utah, and Kansas as states where Obama has won without a large African American vote.

The piece did have a clip of Obama making just that point about winning states with mostly white populations. Then they dismissed the point and talked for the rest of the piece about how there’s this big racial divide issue.

There’s no doubt that the numbers show a significant racial gap in southern states. In those states, Obama does great among African Americans. He doesn’t do as well with white voters, but he’s not getting blown out of the water either. He got 43 percent of the white vote in Georgia, for example.

But the bigger picture is that he has done really well in states with largely white populations. Why you would do an analysis of the campaign that ignores this important piece of the puzzle is beyond me. I guess Juan has his story, and he’s sticking to it.