David Weigel is on the case:
One problem with comparing the Philadelphia incident to the infamous crimes of the 1960s is that it didn’t effectively target potential McCain voters. Rather than targeting white voters, or going to a predominantly Republican district, the NBP went to a largely African-American precinct close to downtown Philadelphia. Obama carried the precinct by a landslide, with 596 votes to only 13 votes for McCain. The Republican candidate fared worse than George W. Bush in 2004, when he won 24 votes there, but better than Bush in 2000, when he won only eight votes. In a race that Obama won by 620,478 votes statewide, the New Black Panther incident was a blip.A couple of idiots went to one polling place in one city and acted like fools, probably preventing one or two people from voting- and this case is the primary objective of the Bush-nominee-dominated U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Again- to the right, it's only racism when black people do it. Posted by Stephen Silver at August 28, 2009 03:10 PM