I was pleased to speak extensively with Matt Bai as he prepared this astute article Is Obama the End of Black Politics. I also respond to the article on my other blog over at JackandJillPolitics.com. Sadly, the name of our business, Fission Strategy, had to be cut for room. But as I say in my blog post on JJP: "Ain’t it a sign of the times we live in — there’s something of a digital divide between those who will see this article online on NYTimes.com starting today days ahead of those who will see it in print several days from now."

Here's the quote in the magazine preview online which is appearing on the homepage of nytimes.com today.

“The African-American voting population is very much online,” Cheryl Contee, who in 2006 helped found the blog Jack and Jill Politics, told me. Contee, who is an owner of a digital consulting business, blogs under the pseudonym Jill Tubman, and hers is one of a number of sites that have emerged in just the last year as part of what’s often called the “Afrosphere.” “One of the things I talk to clients about is that the digital divide has changed,” Contee said. “It’s no longer along racial lines like it was in 1996 and 2000. Now it’s more economic and educational.” In other words, after lagging for a time, college-educated African-Americans are now organizing online in the same way as their mostly white counterparts at Daily Kos and MoveOn.org started doing several years ago.