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Coverage of “The Race Card”

With such a short time between now and the election, I’ve been intrigued by how much of the current coverage focuses on race, and how the two presidential candidates are “handling” the issue. I caught a bit of Campbell Brown’s show on CNN last night (if you click the link, check out the video excerpts on the right) and was struck by some of the comments of the politicos. Their general take: it seems race can’t NOT be an issue.

Congressman John Lewis went so far as to compare McCain and Palin’s rhetoric to the late Alabama Gov. George Wallace, whose hateful segregationist agenda permeated much of the Civil Rights movement. McCain shot back. Then the Obama camp stepped in with its own statement, which Fox News calls “the middle path,” disagreeing with the comparison between McCain and Wallace but not with the overall message of Lewis’ remarks.

Though I am disheartened that the color of someone’s skin appears to be a “hot-button” issue in this day and age, I am pleased that at least there is discussion of the topic of race…some of it even deep! What are your thoughts about media coverage of “the race card”?