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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? By Joan Walsh [2008-02-05]

• This article makes no sense.

  Mrs. Walsh,

  I found this article to be all over the place. It appears to be presented as a news article or essay, though is clearly biased against Mr. Obama.

  With Obama closing a 30-plus point gap in California, one would think the gist of any article on his California campaign would be positive, but you instead make obscure negative assertions that his campaign never understood California's Latino demographic until this week, or that he had foolishly wasted his fortunes in other, less important states.

  Your editorializing reached the absurd when you interjected into a quotation from one of his supporters (who mentioned his stint at Occidental College) that he, in fact, actually graduated from 'Ivy League Columbia,' as if to diminish his life at the small minority Occidental in Los Angeles. Salon readers are well aware Columbia is an Ivy League school.

  In the future please keep the editorializing out of the news and keep it more focused. This article had no focus except a vague distaste for Obama's presidential aspirations!

  -- maxbatt
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