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How do Republicans feel about Powell today?Lets take a look at this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/opinion/07plissner.html
"Most significantly, General Powell would have won the race because of the support of white voters — Bill Clinton outpolled him 2 to 1 among the blacks surveyed. Among white voters, whom Senator Dole had carried very narrowly (too narrowly for him to win), General Powell clobbered the incumbent, 53 percent to 33 percent."
If we assume that most of those white voters who did NOT poll for Bill Clinton there, were NOT democrats then we see that the Right side of the partisan divide in the US is not racist or at least not very racist, if they are will to vote for a black man to be president.
And of course, nearly all of the other whites a few years later, ended up voting for Obama.
THe POSSIBLE size of the white racist vote looks to be pretty small.