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Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:00 AM

Breaking the Democratic deadlock

If Obama wants to secure the nomination next week, he'll need to recapture the working-class voters who helped him rout Clinton in Wisconsin.
By Mike Madden

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    Black American politics has a different center of gravity

    Any chance of obscuring this fact has been destroyed by Rev. Wright, for reasons that might seem "ultra-Left" and "unrealistic" to those who have not been forced to take the difference seriously. The only commentator I have seen who has really expressed this accurately is Glen Ford in Black Agenda Report, whose article "Pop goes the race-neutral campaign," is also online at CounterPunch.

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