Is not liking Obama racist?

John Heilemann asks why Obama isn't doing better in the polls, considering that so many Americans are unhappy with the status quo? His guess: many older white men ( who don't seem to be very interested in Obama) are racist.

This would not be suprising, given the result of a recent Gallup poll which finds that a majority of Americans (including whites) think that racism against blacks is widespread in the U.S. Via Feminist Philosophers: