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Her failure to challenge Barack Obama's huge momentum among African-Americans -- not a given at the start -- may have doomed her campaign.
  • And yet here in NC, in Durham

    Obama is expected, and I stress that word, expected, to get the Black vote, BECAUSE it's black. In other words either we assume that all or most black people will vote for Obama because he's black, or, the media believes this to be the case and the electorate is just going to go along. Faced with that, it doesn't matter a whole hell of a lot what any other candidate does.