For Obama, Race Remains Elephant in the Room - TIME

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1841109,00.html?iid=sphere-inline-bottom

Finally, an article that addresses an issue central to this election. No matter how we think everything is just great and dandy , race is a major factor. Barack is still a black man and this is still America. I've been called a nigger twice this Summer alone, once by a man who sneered" where'd you go to school, Harvard?". Don't think for a minute that this doesn't matter.