What do voters think?
There is a popular video on YouTube right now, a skit from Saturday Night live about a game of " Black Jeopardy ." If you haven't seen it, you should, both because it is funny and because I think there are a lot of things about race relations in America to learn from it (though perhaps not always the things that most people take from it). But I don't want to talk about race relations; I want to talk about politics. At one point, Tom Hanks's character responds to the Jeopardy "answer" "They out here saying that every vote counts" with "Come on, they already decided who wins even before it happens." And in the skit, it is axiomatic that this is a standard view of blacks in America, as well as an assumption shared by many whites. This strikes me as extraordinary. I say it is extraordinary, although I grew up among people who thought along similar lines. What is extraordinary is that no political analysts that I am aware of ever ...