Student Paper Reports at Obama Event - "We need more white people!"

A sincere question: For a man touted as so radically different from the mainstream politicians we've all come to know and loathe, doesn't this hurt him? He can't be unlike all politicians while campaigning exactly like all other politicians, can he?

He wouldn't even have a campaign, muchless potentially win one, if he didn't play into the system to an extent. Most people understand and accept this.