MSNBCW Hardball With Chris Matthews August 24, 2012
leading off tonight. you remember this? >> i barack hussein obama do solemnly swear. >> that was barack obama's inauguration less than four years ago now and it seemed for a shining moment like america had opened a new chapter in its difficult and frequently shameful history with race. but it wasn't true. even as obama took that oath, researchers were going back through the 2008 election, running through the numbers, running through the polls and finding that far from being a postracial election, it was an usually racial election. tested this in an interesting way. first he ranked ar...