Thomas Schaller urged Barack Obama to write off North Carolina.
In a guest column in The New York Times on July 1, the author of "Whistling Past Dixie" argued that the then Democratic presidential nominee might find Virginia within reach, but not North Carolina and Georgia.
"Mr. Obama can write off Georgia and North Carolina for the same reasons that Mississippi is beyond his reach — although the math in those two states is slightly less daunting," he wrote.
He argued that black voters already cast their ballots at a relatively high rate, and said the "white vote" would serve as a "formidable counterbalance."
Schaller, a professor of politics at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, was wrong about Obama's chances here, as it turned out.
Next, we'll see what he says now.
Blog RSS feed
