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Tuesday, February 5, 2008 12:00 AM

The race for California

Clinton and Obama battle for a mother lode of delegates -- in a state with a nonwhite Latino, Asian, black majority. Who has figured out the electoral math?

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  • Tuesday, February 5, 2008 09:42 PM

    A good case in point tonight Ron, was Soledad O'Brian

    She's doing a duo with CNN's main pollster, can't think of his name, and he's talking about the number of Republicans and Democrats who during the exit polls told his teams that it was the economy they were most interested in.

    So good ol' Soledad, who has a brain about the size of a cashew, says, "But what about race! Let's look at race!"

    And so there you go, it all comes down to the lowest common denominator. Economy = boring. Race = controversy.

    The cashew brains win every time.

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