It may be that particularly in North Carolina, and particularly among very liberal and African American voters, Reverend Wright helped Barack Obama seal the deal. The problem is that this and related controversies may have seriously unraveled the Democratic coalition he will need in the fall. But it is a long way to November and Obama will have plenty of new patriotic rhetoric to throw out, as he did tonight, to try to repaint his portrait.

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