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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?
By Joan Walsh

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  • Tuesday, February 5, 2008 07:30 AM

    Great Analysis

    Joan,

    Thanks for a wonderful summary of both campaigns and for your keep observations. I do think the most ironic and iconic photo of the whole campaign is Obama with Oprah, the plutocrat, and the two Shriver aristocrats. This I guess is the new populism. The Hamptons crowd telling us how to vote, and somehow it has been twisted to be multicultural populism.

    Man, my old lefty bones are creaking. I am with Bob Dylan: " You got to serve somebody."

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