Now this, via Andrew and the Mississippi GOP, does strike me as a racially-charged ad. Not because of its content - it's the Wright stuff again - but because of the way its visuals play with the color scheme to link the local Democrat to Wright and Obama. See what you think:
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Ross Douthat is a former contributing editor at The Atlantic.