re: If McCain-Palin win, I won't be terribly surprised
Obama has a long history which his supporters in the media have simply written off. But it's out there, and people can see it on other venues. It isn't that he's black. It's that he's a radical, or at least has gone a long way over the past 20 years to make people think he is for political gain.
If he loses, the story will forevermore be that it's about race, even though from a cultural standpoint, I'm probably "blacker" than Obama is. Sure as heck the old guard like Jackson and Sharpton would think so.