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Did White Gender Gap Really Help Obama?
(The Root) — White women were so turned off by the GOP’s stance on rape and their corporeal rights that they voted to re-elect the first African-American president, according to a popular myth emerging about the recent elections. Smelling the roses of this fresh liberation, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd declared “white male patriarchy”…
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The White Romney Vote: Based on Race?
(The Root) — Little about the GOP candidate appeared to qualify him for the White House as he sweated freely over foreign-policy debate questions Monday night. Clearly ill-suited to be commander in chief, Mitt Romney fidgeted in his chair, fudged his Afghanistan position and, in the cross talk over Iraq, seemed on the verge of…
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Biden Versus Ryan: A TKO?
(The Root) — The vice-presidential debate, which set the table for the Romney-Obama rematch at Hofstra University on Oct. 16, resembled an old-fashioned boxing match between a cagey veteran and a wiry upstart from a GOP Party that is 98 percent white. Unlike President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, who stayed in their corners during…
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Perils of Debating 'Etch A Sketch' Romney
(The Root) — President Barack Obama got the switch from Mitt Romney, who, until their encounter at last night’s debate, had baited his hook as a conservative during 23 primary debates with GOP opponents campaigning to his right and under the swoon of the Tea Party. Working mightily during the primary to obscure his moderate…
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Clinton's DNC Speech: A Savvy Move for Him
(The Root) — As the first former U.S. president to nominate a successive one for re-election, Bill Clinton made history last night. And he put aside his uneasy personal relations in his 49-minute speech to praise his erstwhile Democrat rival in the White House and to steamroll the GOP policy issues laid out at its…
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Bill Clinton: Haunted by the Ghosts of '08
(The Root) — In addition to the GOP, President Obama is contending with a pesky Bill Clinton bent on distracting the re-election campaign of the man who, by defeating his wife, blocked Clinton’s return to the power stage of the White House. Damning the president with high praise for his Republican rival is but the…
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What If Trayvon's Case Had Been About Rape?
Consider this scenario: Aroused by an attractive teenager in a halter top walking through his neighborhood, a Sanford, Fla., man was instructed to stand down by police, but instead he provoked an encounter that ended tragically with the assault and rape of the 17-year-old girl. After showing authorities scratches on his face and arms that…
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Gil Noble: The Man Who Told It 'Like It Is'
Gil Noble loved him some Harlem. He loved the way Harlem talks, as when Chuck Berry rushed back onstage in his lounge slippers after a break at the Apollo Theater in the ’60s and heard a rock ‘n’ roll fan yell upstage: “You need you some shoes, Chuck!” Noble loved the way Harlem laughs, spins…
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Ron Paul's Moment of Racial Clarity
The debate fell silent Saturday when Ron Paul trotted out of the closet the GOP skeleton of denial: racism. Initially confronted with “racist” diatribes penned by another writer in a newsletter under his name, Rep. Paul dismissed them as a 20-year-old nonissue. Then, suddenly, as if the 76-year-old libertarian realized that he had nothing to…
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Is Newt's Fidelity Pledge 'Child's Play'?
Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has reportedly sent a long email to an ultraconservative Iowa group opposing same-sex marriage and the military policy of “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” He also took a personal pledge to stick to his own marriage vows. “I also pledge to uphold the institution of marriage through personal fidelity to my spouse…
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