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Topic: What’s the Matter With White People?

(AP/Reuters/Brendan McDermid/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Abdeljalil Bounhar)

Do whites need dog whistles?

Joan Walsh
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/AP/Damian Dovarganes/Photo montage by Salon)

The white left's racial myopia

Joan Walsh
(Fox News)

How my fellow Irish got gross

Andrew O'Hehir
Robert F. Kennedy (AP)

How to talk about white people

Joan Walsh
An unidentified supporter grabs the back of President Barack Obama's head during the president's campaign event at Springfield High School, Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, in Springfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Can whites doom Obama?

Joan Walsh

GOP "plays race card"

Joan Walsh
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Has Obama lost whites?

Joan Walsh
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Reaping what they sowed

Joan Walsh
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When Ryan told the truth

Joan Walsh
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (AP/Mary Altaffer)

White and whiter

Joan Walsh
Joe Biden (AP/Don Petersen)

Joe Biden was right

Joan Walsh
Joan Walsh (Susan Walsh)

GOP "is the white party"

Andrew O'Hehir