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Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:00 AM

Obama's historic run heads south

Did his victory in Iowa and strong showing in New Hampshire really "put to rest the notion that a black candidate can't win in America"?
By Walter Shapiro

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  • Thursday, January 24, 2008 07:05 PM

    And another thing...

    Can people stop prefacing their letters with "I'm a white, older male retiree" or "I'm a black woman and I..." Not only does no one cares, and nobody knows if its true, but it feeds into the same reductionist clap trap. Is that all that matters about you, is a bunch of features you were born with? For all the insistence from everyone, pro-Obama, pro-Clinton, pro-The Flying Spaghetti monster, no one seems to be arguing anything other than that they, as some sort of demographic bellwether, don't agree with what some poll says about them. Hooray!

    —Sean SIberio Read Sean SIberio's other letters

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