What the right-wing pundits and the Clintoneske politicos seem not to have considered:
You all know what's going to happen in the African-American community if Barack Obama loses either the nomination or the race for the Presidency, yes?
Namely this:
Louis Farrakhan is going to be popular as never before in the African-American community and will become a player of unprecedented proportions.
With some ninety percent of Black Americans supporting Obama does anyone think that the Black community is going to blame Barack Obama for a loss?
Barack Obama is Black America's reconciliation candidate.
What an Obama loss will make clear to Black folks is that Clinton or McCain won due to the racist garbage they threw at Obama.
We're going to have a Black population that voted as a block for a black candidate who was conciliatory to white Americans without looking like an Uncle Tom. Yet still...
The message white America will deliver to Black America is that they are not interested in reconciliation.
Especially the oh, so hopeful, black middle class, already under siege from foreclosures and economic life-style constraints and fearful will perceive this as a swift kick in the pants.
Thus, no one in the black community on the street, in the offices, and even among the semi-wealthy is going to listen to any of the old Civil Rights leadership anymore. And we certainly can forget about the "Black Conservatives".
It's going to be a field day for Black Nationalists.
Since Farrakhan has the only viable nationwide organization to capitalize on the political resentment and the inevitable backlash...
Farrakhan will be propelled to the top like a rocket.
Twelve percent of America under the influence of Louis Farrakhan.
Game Over.