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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.

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  • Sunday, May 4, 2008 06:58 PM

    You Softpedaled Clinton's actions in your piece

    I think the black vote disappeared for Clinton with Bill's remarks in SC, her willingness to tear down a black candidate, her feeling that she should be president and Obama VP as Obama led, her refusal to repudiate Geraldine Ferraro's comments, her cynical use of the Reverend Wright situation, and her husband's assertion and then denial of the taped assertion that Obama had used the race card against them. It's not her failure to challenge, but her willingness to do anything to try to garner this nomination, even when the math is against her, even when it means alienating a constituency that had been very much for her.

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