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TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES for INDEPENDENT VOTERS
- Betty Ward, New Hampshire Committee for an Independent Voice, speaks out (Concord Monitor) about Imperial Candidates Hillary and John Edwards' "caught on tape" moment after the NAACP forum -- "Let the people decide" she says... MyDD and Primary Source and Dennis Kucinich caught it too, as did hundreds of voters who emailed or wrote letters to Howard Dean calling for inclusive debates....
- Google is holding town hall "job interviews" for prez candidates open to 12,000 employees (Washington Post)
- The AP headline reads "Giuliani's Mayoral Record Is Complicated"... -- if by "complicated" you mean racist and riddled by police brutality cases... Giuliani was David Dinkins' clean-up man in New York City (AP - Casper Star Tribune)
- With 73% of the country saying the US is going in the wrong direction, partisan politics is the real spoiler, but for those looking for a Safe Alternative without giving up winning, there's "nothing to lose with Unity08 candidacy" (Post Bulletin, Rochester MN )
- Obama was in the poor community of Washington DC talking "tough love" to black voters this week (Gannett News Service Salem Statesman Journal) and gained Mayor Fenty's endorsement (Redding News Review)
- Lenora Fulani was talking some tough love to New York's black establishment (Amsterdam News)
- Consider the "filibuster threat" -- In a 50/50 partisan Congress, what would you expect--conversation? (Forbes)
3 comments:
According to the 2005 census, South Carolina is only 30% black. It is no surprise that the name recognition would help Clinton much more than Obama
Thanks for your correction, superdestroyer -- apparently it's 50% of the Dems who are black in S.C. -- and that's an interesting theory about name recognition. Whether to back Hillary or Obama (or others) is an important dialogue in the black community, and for the country. Is it Hillary's time, not Obama's? Does the country want to continue Clintonism or go for something new? And can Obama deliver something new? This is a great historical election!
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