Your are right. A significant percentage of Democrats would NOT vote for a black man on the top of the ticket.
But that percentage would drop drastically if Hillary were on top of the ticket and Obama on the bottom.
Plus, it's hard to argue with the fact that thousands and of NEW voters, mostly urban and young college pukes, have registered in 2008 just because they want to spit in the eye of the establishment by voting for quasi-muslim "free college, free food, free everything" commie-lib Obama.
Right here in my county, the number of NEWLY registered Democrats just TODAY pushed the Dems OVER the number of registered Republicans for the first time in the past 40 years. (the Board of Elections confirmed the numbers)
Yes, I agree that the old time Democrat rank and file, the union members, blue-dogs, etc will NOT elect a black man for President .....
Which is why Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, and others should have just let Obama win on Tuesday....
Now, Hillary will come back from the dead..... she will select Obama as VP (and yes, he will accept).... and all will be hunky dory in the Democratic party again.
Don't kid yourself. The desire of the liberal wacko Democrats to defeat the Republicans in November will trump their reluctance to support a black man or a woman......
In the end, Democrats care more about getting power than they do the security and prosperity of America.