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...appeal to white audiences -witness the huge crowds of people the Presidential contender has drawn in Iowa and New Hampshire, or his best-selling book. But one of the many unknowns about Obama is how black activists and voters will respond to a different kind of candidacy for an African-American hopeful. Jesse Jackson's focus on the underclass and poverty didn't win him the Democratic nomination in 1988, but Obama would surely like to win the 90% of the black vote in most states that Jackson...
...sure, Obama is starting out with some high-profile African-American backers. Virginia's Doug Wilder, who in 1989 was the first black in U.S. history to be elected governor, has met with Obama and encouraged him to run. More than most politicians, Wilder knows personally how difficult it can be for a black candidate; during his gubernatorial campaign, the gap between his numbers in the final polls and in the actual election showed such a dramatic drop-off that it became known as the "Wilder Effect." "I know there are people who don't think an African-American...
...could now be whether she is polarizing enough to appeal to primary voters who are looking to express their own anger. Even the excitement factor - the prospect of being the first woman President - has been blunted by the fact that her leading challenger, Barack Obama, could be the first African-American one. What's more, Clinton is hardly a fresh face. By 2008, voters will have lived for two decades with either a Clinton or a Bush in the White House, and polls - including TIME's - show they are growing uncomfortable with the idea of American dynasties...
Harvard’s self-perpetuating governing board, the Harvard Corporation, currently includes four men and two women. Georgetown professor Patricia A. King, the third woman to serve on the Corporation in its history and the first African-American female, was appointed last year...
...best things that happened was that he put undergraduate teaching on the front burner,” Merck says. The president feuded with some faculty members—most publicly, African-American studies scholar Cornel R. West ’74, over what Summers saw as an insufficient emphasis on teaching students at the College...