She'll get a pass.
Not exactly. She's getting what she wanted -- chops in the black community, Al Sharpton's support, and notoriety in the right places: every time a Southern white Republican stands up to criticize her, she eats it up.
She's running against Southern conservative white men, both in the black wards and among less-wealthy, lower-middle-class white women in the Midwest who've been educated by the press to hate Southern white men.