Frank Rich, the unapologetic Democrat and influential columnist, figures that if it's Obama against McCain this fall, the G.O.P. is about to get thumped. McCain and the G.O.P., he argues, are simply too white. There is not, for example, a single black Republican in the Congress or Senate and black Republicans make up less than 4 per cent of G.O.P. primary voters. But it's not just Obama's color, it's his appeal – a result of his youth and rhetorical magic – to the so-called millennial generation. In Rich's view, that combination will be too much for Hillary and definitely too much for a “Grumpy Old White Guy” named McCain.