MSNBC hosts say Obama will have tough time being re-elected because he is black

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4/21/12, "MSNBC: Obama graded harder because he's black," Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner

"MSNBC hosts agreed this weekend that white voters hold President Obama to a higher standard than his white predecessors because he is black.

"[Obama] now has a specific record of governing," MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry said today on her show. "A record that, I contend, because of his race will be held to a much higher standard than it would have been for a white incumbent.

• Those white voters
  

who found what they were looking for in 2008 will not necessarily be so enthusiastic in 2012."

Alex Wagner, host of MSNBC's NOW, agreed. "I think race absolutely has to do with the conversation about reelection," she said."...

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