Jennifer, I agree that Obama has a problem wooing white voters, as the Times piece pointed out, but it’s not much more severe than John Kerry’s problem in 2004, when he won only 41% of white votes. Democrats have been struggling with white voters for years. The Democrats have become the party of blacks, Hispanics (though that constituency has proved somewhat fickle), union members, and single white women. Obama’s anemic support among whites is just a continuation of a long-simmering predicament.