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OPINION

What Makes Him Different Makes Him Scary

Obama must overcome the stereotypes that come with his heritage, and success

Sep 29, 08 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s revolutionary candidacy is in trouble, and the very things that make him a breath of fresh air are to blame, James Carroll writes in the Boston Globe. “Race, gender, and class define American identity, but Obama, just by being who he is, directly challenges the core... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • gender • race • Election 2008 • class

 All-White Jury Will Judge OJ 


Sep 12, 08 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nine women and three men will make up the jury in OJ Simpson’s trial for kidnapping and armed robbery —but none of them are black, the Los Angeles Times reports. The prosecution dismissed two black candidates, one from the jury and another from the pool of alternates, but... More »

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race • celebrity trials • kidnapping • OJ Simpson • trial • armed robbery • jury selection

 Just How Blue Is Michigan?

State loss could be disastrous for Dems

Sep 6, 08 11:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michigan has gone blue in four out of the past five presidential elections, but the crucial state is anything but a lock for Barack Obama this year. The Wall Street Journal assesses a slew of factors—the state's highly charged racial politics, John McCain's good standing among GOP moderates and... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race • Michigan • Election 2008 • swing states

Top Black Donors Emerge as New Force

Business leaders see parallel of their own rise in Obama

Aug 29, 08 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's rise to the top of the Democratic Party has a special resonance for one group: African-American business leaders who, like the candidate, were among the first blacks to enter into all-white industries. As the New York Times reports, black lawyers, bankers, and corporate titans see in Obama an... More »

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Barack Obama • race • campaign fundraising • African-Americans • corporate execs

McCain Cleverly Made Race Factor: Emanuel

Campaign prevented backlash by panning Obama comment

Aug 27, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s campaign managed to slip the issue of race into the presidential election, Democratic heavyweight Rahm Emanuel said today. “They got it through customs," Emanuel said at a Politico-hosted roundtable, characterizing the Republicans’ tactic of injecting race with reaction to a perceived offense by Barack Obama.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Democrats • race • Rahm Emanuel • Obama 2008 • Tom Daschle • the race card

OPINION

Yeah, She Made History—What About the Guy Who Won?

DNC skirts around Obama's breakthrough

Aug 27, 08 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last night's Hillaryfest was the culmination of a months-long homage to the New York senator's "historic" achievement of almost winning a major party's presidential nomination. But it's odd, notes Alessandra Stanley, that while an "also-ran" has made her candidacy a milestone, there's been little mention of the "... More »

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television • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • race • Democratic National Convention • African-Americans

Jesse Jackson Jr.: Obama's Like Jackie Robinson

Candidate has to endure jeers with a smile, can't strike back

Aug 25, 08 3:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is like Jackie Robinson: he’s got to perform despite racist taunts, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., son of the civil-rights leader, said during a Politico-sponsored panel discussion today ahead of the Democratic convention. Like the baseball pioneer, Obama “has to keep smiling,” in the face of... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Jesse Jackson • Jackie Robinson • Democratic National Convention • baseball • Jesse Jackson Jr. • African-Americans

OPINION

 It's Not Race That's
 Holding Him Back 

Blaming white voters will only be counterproductive, says Bai

Aug 25, 08 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama goes into this week's convention in Denver with only the slimmest of leads—or, as some polls suggest, trailing John McCain. In a year when it's widely assumed that any Democratic candidate should be a shoo-in, many in the press have suggested that Obama's race is costing him... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Democratic National Convention • race relations • Democratic Party • white voters • African-Americans

OPINION

Trouble the Water Vividly Mixes Katrina, Race

Documentary traces one couple's story through New Orleans disaster

Aug 21, 08 5:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Trouble the Water, a new documentary, is ostensibly about Hurricane Katrina, centered around home-video footage shot during the disaster by a resident of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. But the film, which frames Kimberly Roberts’ footage within a larger context, transcends that one event to put forth a peerless discussion of... More »

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Hurricane Katrina • race • African Americans • New Orleans • America • racism • African-Americans

OLYMPICS

 US Relay Teams Drop Batons

Hand-off gaffes disqualify both men and women

Aug 21, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - US track and field was hit by two nearly identical disasters today, when both the men’s and women’s teams flubbed the last handoff of the preliminary 400-meter relay, the Los Angeles Times reports. A wet, slippery night in the Bird’s Nest proved tough for the relay squads,... More »

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race • Team USA • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tyson Gay • track and field • Olympic Games

ANALYSIS

Race Scholars Weigh Job Woes —Their Own

Obama win could make field inconsequential, or more vital than ever

Aug 14, 08 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's historic run for the White House is dividing scholars of race in America, writes Jonathan Tilove, who covers race for Newhouse News Service. Some see a black president as an antidote to racism, but others view a potential Obama presidency as an empty symbol with few practical implications.... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race • scholarship • black • Election 2008

Polls Indicate Landslide Election Unlikely

Obama lacking the late-summer numbers for a blowout

Aug 13, 08 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite a persistent surge of enthusiasm from supporters, current polls indicate that Barack Obama's numbers lack the telltale signs of a November landslide, Politico reports. In five out of the six postwar landslides—a victory of 10% or more—the winner was ahead by at least 10% at the end... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race • landslide • Election 2008 • opinion polls • Mason-Dixon Polling & Research

analysis

Why Have They Lost Their Sense of Humor?

Neither campaign can take a joke, Andersen grumbles

Aug 10, 08 5:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama and John McCain can both crack a joke, so why can't they take one this election season? From Obama offending McCain with digs about the race card to McCain's laughable anti-Obama ads, serious matters are being laughed off and bad jokes are being taken seriously, Kurt Andersen writes... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race • humor • political advertising • Election 2008

 Obama May Signal
 The End of Black Politics

Younger politicians
are leaving elders
and history behind

Aug 9, 08 7:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama may be the most successful black candidate in American political history, but his prominence and possible presidency could be the death knell for black politics as we know it, Matt Bai writes in the New York Times Magazine. While he's not quite the “post-racial” candidate some... More »

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Barack Obama • race • politics • African Americans • Washington DC • civil rights movement • Congressional Black Caucus • politician

(Newser) - This year's presidential race is bamboozling many a pollster. Todd Domke looks at some of skewing factors for the Boston Globe:
  • Race: White voters might be reluctant to tell pollsters they oppose a black candidate. Tom Bradley, remember, led the polls for California governor but lost the race. Then
... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race • age • poll • McCain 2008 • age discrimination • opinion polls

Obama Rebuts Times Race Story—With Paper's Own Poll

Campaign takes issue with divided-country thesis

Jul 16, 08 1:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama campaign has fired back at a front-page New York Times story, which concludes from a poll today that the Dem isn’t healing racial division. The campaign uses stats from the paper's own survey, Talking Points Memo reports. The article “ignores…some straightforward points from their data,... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • race • New York Times • Michelle Obama • opinion polls

 Racial Divide
  Persists Despite
 Obama: Poll 

Racial attitudes have barely budged despite groundbreaking run

Jul 16, 08 12:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's often hailed "post-racial" run for the White House is, in fact, unfolding in an America still sharply divided by race, a New York Times/CBS News poll has discovered. The lives of most Americans are as racially segregated as they were 8 years ago, the poll says. Black... More »

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Barack Obama • race • race relations • poll • racial inequality • New York Times/CBS News poll • African-Americans

OPINION

Black, Red, White & Blue 

Obama's patriotism questioned at historic moment

Jul 4, 08 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - For black Americans, patriotism is a complex sentiment, but "complicated relationships tend to be the deepest and strongest," writes Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post. Barack Obama’s candidacy shows how far we've come, but "it is not common, in my experience, for sitting US senators to... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Election 2008 • African-Americans • patriotism • Fourth of July

OPINION

Even Obama Can't Whistle
Through Dixie

He'll lose because white voters will cancel out black turnout: prof

Jul 1, 08 8:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama is running a 50-state campaign, and some of his more breathless supporters have talked up the candidate as the first Democrat to win the South in decades. Not so fast, writes Thomas F. Schaller. As the political scientist explains in a New York Times op-ed, the Obaman dream... More »

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Barack Obama • race • Georgia • North Carolina • Virginia • Obama 2008 • South • black voters

 Obama 'Wants 
 to Talk White': 
 Nader 

Third-party maverick says Dem avoids poverty, favors 'appeal to white guilt'

Jun 25, 08 4:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ralph Nader says Barack Obama "wants to talk white" and "appeal to white guilt" while ignoring poverty, the third-party presidential candidate told the Rocky Mountain News yesterday. The consumer advocate said the only thing that separated Obama from past Democrats is that he’s “half African-American,"... More »

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Barack Obama • race • poverty • Ralph Nader • white guilt

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