WASN’T HE BLACK BACK IN 2008? Barone: Obama backers use race as alibi for ebbing support. “The fact that some have, at least for the moment, moved away from supporting Obama to opposing him, or remain unsure, reflects not an increasing racism, but the fact that we simply have more information than we had four years ago.”

As Tony Katz said: “It’s not his race. It’s that he’s awful.”