Community Checkup

From Media Matters and Electronic Village:
Fox News Radio host Tom Sullivan took a call from a listener who stated that when listening to Barack Obama speak, “it harkens back to when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with Hitler, how he would excite the crowd and they’d come to their feet [...]

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In his NYT op-ed, a chief consultant for Al Gore’s presidential campaign, Ted Devine, summed up my sentiments about superdelegates exactly:
If the superdelegates determine the party’s nominee before primary and caucus voters have rendered a clear verdict, Democrats risk losing the trust that we are building with voters today. The perception that the votes of [...]

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Melissa Harris-Lacewell wrote an interesting piece about the issue of race vs. gender in voting decisions for black women. She nicely breaks down why the popular notion in the media that black women have chosen race over gender in their support of Barack is a flawed one. She explains that…
It is not [...]

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A great comment from a Washington Post article yesterday about fear and Obama’s campaign:
The point of Obama’s candidacy is that the damaged state of American democracy is not the fault of George W. Bush and his minions, the corporate-controlled media, the insurance industry, the oil industry, lobbyists, terrorists, illegal immigrants or Satan. The point is [...]

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It’s no secret that the Clintons have been playing dirty. Smart, but dirty. The question remains as to whether their tactics will be able to stem the gigantic tidal wave of support behind Obama. I don’t think they will.
Plenty of folk, such as Ron Walters of the University of Maryland, have [...]

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There’s still Nevada to go, but I’m most interested in South Carolina next week. It will be the first real test of how much support Obama has from the black community.I also see it as being a gauge of how far some in the black community have come in dealing with the fear of the [...]

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I’m still amazed. I knew Obama had a very good chance. I knew his message of change was strong and was what many wanted to hear. I knew that the tons of money he was able to raise was an indicator that American might be ready for him. Still, I [...]

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