Deep thoughts from Special Ed:

Racial divide?  Didn’t this election prove that our racial divide had moved to the past?  Barack Obama didn’t win from the black vote — he won a majority of white voters as well.  While racism will never get completely stamped out, it has thankfully faded out of our public life.  That was a prerequisite to victory, not a result of it.  Had there actually been a racial divide in our public life, Barack Obama wouldn’t have won the nomination, let alone the election.  Maybe Time should think about that.