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Monday, May 5, 2008 12:00 AM

How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote

Her failure to challenge Barack Obama's huge momentum among African-Americans -- not a given at the start -- may have doomed her campaign.
By Thomas F. Schaller

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  • Monday, May 5, 2008 09:28 AM

    lungchunk

    a white man disguised as a black man: and you're casting aspersions about Obama and black "racism"? what a tool. how about billary and the biddie vote? ageism? sexism? horsemanure?

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