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he does not commit himself to changing anything.

The key to Mr Obama’s cross-racial appeal is not what he will do but who he is. Recently he has referred often to his white grandfather, who fought in the second world war, and to his white mother, who for a while scraped by on food stamps. And during his televised speeches, he makes sure to put white ladies of a certain age where the camera can see them. His visual message, which he could never articulate so bluntly, is that although he is black, he is not threatening.