The New York Times story on New York’s black Democratic leadership inching toward Obama and away from Hillary is pretty interesting. My guess is this is that unless Obama has a serious misstep this can only get worse for Hillary. Right now black voters aren’t really paying attention (just like white, Hispanic, Hmong and left-handed voters). But if the race goes the distance and Obama is seen as viable all the way through, it’s going to be very hard, I think, for Hillary to command the outsized share of the black vote as she’s planned. Assuming he goes the distance, just when black Democratic voters start paying attention will be just the moment when Hillary will need to negative on Obama and she won’t be able to.