The President of the College Democrats of America sent a memo to its members Wednesday that focused on the ethnic heritage of Louisiana's Republican candidate for governor, Bobby Jindal.
In the message intended to rally college Democrats to a meeting in New Orleans, Ashley Bell, an African-American student at LSU Law School said, "Jindal is Arab American and the Republicans token attempt to mend bridges long burnt with the Arab American community."
Bell referred to the Republican candidate as "Bush's personal 'Do Boy' Bobby Jindal."
... Eric Hoplin, Chairman of the CRNC pointed out that Jindal is the American-born son of Indian immigrants. Since India is not considered part of the Arab world, the College Republican group awarded the national Democrat organization the "Ferdinand Magellan Award for Geographic Genius."
Race is definatley going to be an issue in this election, I doubt that the media will tell the rest of the country about how big a factor the democrats plan on using it, in the election though.