Morning Jay: Why Did Biden Play the Race Card?

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What to make of Joe Biden’s apparent racial demagoguery this week in Danville, Virginia? Team Obama dismissed it as having nothing to do with race, but this is likely wrong: Biden certainly seemed to be referencing slavery, was doing so in a Southern dialect, and speaking in a city that is roughly split between whites and African Americans.

Why would he do this? Isn’t the black vote already in the bag?

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