Plus you can't deny the fact that he used his race to his advantage to sway votes. Basically saying in front of one minority, he would claim to be one thing and in front of another, claim to be another.
This confused me. I saw President-elect Obama on a national debate talk about his white family AND his black family. I'm pretty certain that those debates aren't segregated. He may target his message to the audience at hand, but that's just politics as usual. Actually, that's *marketing* as usual and that's what a great deal of campaigning is.
