Today, millions of European Americans will be asked to do what all other nonwhite voters of the United States have done since they had the right to: Vote outside their race. The selling of the concept has been so pretentious over the past 6 months that pontiffs and experts have basically given up on race not being a factor; instead they say that the Bradley Effect, will the overriding stimulus to either put Barack Obama in the White House or coincidentally send the first woman vice president to Washington. The Bradley theory - which analysts put at around 10 percent for this race - says that white voters tend to tell pollsters that they are undecided or likely to vote for a black candidate, and yet, on election day, vote for his white opponent.The question, can red-blooded, blue-eyed, blonde-haired Americans send a person of color to the White House, has been dreamed up since the very beginning of the office. It has been immediately dismissed as pure fairy tale just as long. But can they do it? Can they lick the lollipop so unlike any other candy they've had before? Or will they, at the last fateful second, retreat back into sameness, the familiar taste of what they know?
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