Late to the Party

Well I am several weeks behind schedule and it bothers me. In the middle of what has turned out to be the most exciting political season in my lifetime and I've been mostly silent and on the sidelines. Long story (and aren't they all?)
If you go by the populist rhetoric out there, the race is this: We have the old white guy and the man riding into Jerusalem, er, Washington on an ass, er, the Democratic donkey. The fact that the one candidate is a black man doesn't matter. He has transcended race. So much so that the race is just about 50-50 in a country that is predominantly white with a mere 13 percent of the populace being black. Do not, however, put anything into the fact that more than 90 percent of the black vote will be for Obama. Race doesn't have anything to do with it. Oh, and by the way, if you don't vote for Obama, you're a racist.
Did I get that right?
Listen folks, it is about a Bolshevik versus a liberal Republican. Put all the tasty topping on this that you like, it still socialism on the horizon..