Thursday, August 28th, 2008
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The general consensus seems to be that Hillary Clinton delivered party unity in her convention speech. Here's some blogjuice about other aspects of the speech.
Kyle E. Moore is "vehemently partisan, proudly democratic, and unapologetically liberal," and he felt Clinton met every "astronomical" expectation -- she stared down the ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
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If Twitter and swing states are anything to go by, Michelle Obama pretty much rocked her audience on Monday night with her convention speech. The blogosphere echoed with praise, too, but also with pointed analysis and critiques. Here's a taste of it all.
John Klomp is a gay artist ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
These two photographs show Obama and Biden onstage at their VP-announcement rally. Race has obviously been in the subtext and the overt conversation about Campaign 08, so what I like about this juxtaposition is the white hand waving at Barack and the black hand giving Joe a victory sign.
The ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Despite the general excitement about high voter turnout rates in this election -- even among youth -- it's good to remember that over five million Americans (as of 2004) can't vote even if they want to. Because they're convicted felons. Depending on what state they live in, they may be ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Obama praised rapper Ludacris as a great talent recently (though he wished he didn't have to worry about his daughters "getting bad images of themselves" should they listen to his music). Last week, Ludacris presumably thought he returned the favor with Politics As Usual, his endorsement of Barack. The ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Watching Obama in Berlin [stevegarfield / Flickr]
Sam Han is a sociology PhD student at CUNY. He didn't want to wade into campaign hoopla but couldn't help himself last week when people started saying, during Obama's trip abroad, that Barack "'needs to be careful' about not appearing like he’s already won ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Last week, Jesse Jackson said he'd like to "cut [Obama's] nuts off" for "talking down to black people" in speeches about moral responsibility. Unfortunately he said it into a hot microphone at Fox News.
Mmby2k is a 27-year-old single mom in Alabama who thinks Jackson is a hater -- possibly because ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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We've posted several times about the racism Obama faces in his campaign. (Here, here, and here.) This story, found by Sue Salinger, is the rawest example so far. Frank lives in Tuscon, Arizona, and he's a "blue collar-type fella." His interests range from lifting heavy stuff to ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Veronica lives in Southern California and is a "proud far-left Liberal" who is "anti-hate" of any kind. Here she talks with Chelene, a Save Our State anti-illegal-immigration activist. Chelene argues that racism has nothing to do with her stance and that reducing crime and protecting the environment do. (Thanks, ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Sexism isn't the only wart on the Democratic primary. Obama's blackness has of course come up in blatant and derogatory ways. Also in slipperier form from the Clinton campaign: after Hillary won in Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky and brandished her white support, she was accused by many of playing ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Twenty percent of white West Virginians who voted in yesterday's Democratic primary said race "influenced their choice." Two out of every ten. Although Obama's skin color didn't appear to be an issue in white Iowa, it does seem to matter in the general Appalachian region. Clinton's focus on the ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
It seems that a Clinton victory in West Virginia today may be a foregone conclusion. In a completely unscientific survey, there are certainly more Hillary signs than Obama signs in this picture from Shepherdstown, WV, taken by Marylander Pang Tubhirun (hat tip to Misa Dayson):
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It looks like the ...
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