Obama's sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.
I'm with Benen. What can that last phrase possibly mean, except that African-American opinion does not count as much as everyone else's? Yglesias and Weigel pile one.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/04/the-curtain-lifts/202499/
