Mansion, true, this was South Carolina and he won because of the black vote. He was trailing Hillary by some twenty points amongst all demographics up until a few weeks ago in SC. Check out this interesting analysis about the demographics of the vote. That is not to say he cannot win non-blacks. Iowa, New Hampshire(where the delta was 2%) and Nevada have shown he can. What he has stacked against him is time. With eight days left now and 22 states across several media markets and timezones, time might be his biggest enemy.

As for the Democracts loosing, yeah, they have produced disastrous candidates like Kerry and Gore. And Massachusetts, my former home state, has a history of producing embarrassing candidates (take note Romney supporters .. he he). I think however that the current crop of candidates are pretty formidable - at least they appear to be so up till now. Same thing on the Republican side if the nominee is McCain or Guiliani.

It's going to be a good match in November regardless of the nominees.