For many, if not most, of the public this was about race.
Was it about race because that's what they were told by their news?
I mean, if you look at how little they talked about the incomplete, vague FL law...
And how much "the news" talked about race...
Well, people pretty much parrot what they hear on TV so they can look smart. They listen to Rush and they get mad, or they agree with him, but they listen. It was the same on MSNBC. They had to emphasize WHITE and BLACK when talking - When they should have been talking about FL law. Media always talks about what riles people up, not the boring actual fact stuff.
Michelle Obama's red christmas dress was front page drudge news last year lol... "CHINA RED!" I mean really, the news is as much about personality and wedge issues as it is about actual news that matters.