Perhaps so, but that gives us an even worse perspective of the United States of America. I can't believe people would actually vote for one candidate just because the other is black.
It's more than that. That is quite an over simplification.
Many people just don't register for a number of reasons.
A lot of youth didn't bother to register after the 2004 election basically decided that they were unimportant. Some are just turned off by the fact that we voted to elect Bush twice. Others didn't register after the 2000 election because they thought their vote doesn't matter.
Then you get a guy like Obama who is young, energetic, eloquent and has the ability to speak to the young voters and the disenfranchised in this country and its money. Except, thanks to John Kerry many of them aren't registered.
It's the same thing the hollywood liberals to time and again to the church going southern democrats. The Tim Robbins and Sharon Stones make the church folk feel unimportant. Many of them of course are black. Until this election the black vote in the south has been largely ignored. Obama is the first to ignite it since Clinton in 2002.
I'm sure race has to do with some of it, but the reality of the situation is that Obama is pulling from areas in the populous that have been largely ignored in past. Kudos to him and I welcome the new voters. There ain't no such thing as a bandwagon in an election like this.