Didn't Michael Jackson write a song about this?

News pundits have had their fun the past few weeks relaying to viewers the totally set-in-stone fact that Hillary's base's backbone is made up of hard-working, lower-class white people thanks to some polling data from West Virginia, Kentucky and other states I'm scared to visit. While there's truth to this data, it's necessary to remind ourselves that Hillary's backbone of voters aren't necessarily representative of the majority of Americans. And while Obama can't really address the whole "there are still a lot of racist white people out there" dilemma (and he doesn't -- he says the campaign is moving on from issues like that) because then he'd be seen as the scary black candidate with the scary black preacher, Hillary could do her part to help ease tensions.

Instead of touting polling data that white voters support her, the braver step would be to ask those white voters -- if they admit that race is a factor in their voting decisions -- why they're so afraid of a black candidate. Timothy Egan said it best: "In Kentucky, over 25 percent of Clinton supporters said race was a factor in their vote – about five times the national average for such a question. Clinton, if she really wanted to do something lasting, could ask her supporters why the color of a fellow Democrat’s skin is so important to their vote." But I guess it's easier to take what you can get, hold on to as many votes as possible and battle it out to the bitter end.

Way to go, Hillary. You have the support of an America the rest of us would like to move on from.