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...letter sent to friends and colleagues, Cameron Van Patterson—a Harvard graduate student in African and African American Studies and History of Art and Architecture—discussed what Obama’s rise to the candidacy has already shown and will show about the national conscience...
...Rivers, an African and African American Studies concentrator currently writing his thesis on black church crime prevention, said that Obama embodies identity politics, and, at least theoretically, serves as a representative of black America...
...watched the midterm election returns in his apartment, and Barack was rooting very hard for Harvey Gantt, an African-American Senate candidate in North Carolina running against Jesse Helms,” Berenson said. “I remember that [Barack] was wearing a Harvey Gantt T-shirt in his apartment that night, and he was dismayed in a good-natured way when Gantt went down in defeat...
...University of Wisconsin political-science professor Charles Franklin has crunched early-October tracking-poll data and found that Regina Hansley is pretty typical. Undecided voters are no more likely to express questionable attitudes about African Americans than are the public as a whole. He did find, however, that undecided voters are more likely to be predicted as McCain voters than are the general population; 50% of undecideds will likely go for McCain, compared with the 36% of decided voters who say they will pull the lever for the Republican...
...largest population centers are not really in play this election season, according to Eric Rademacher, co-director of the Ohio Poll. McCain likely will perform well in southwest Ohio, which includes Cincinnati, Dayton and their exurbs, despite Obama's success registering new voters and his strength among Cincinnati's African-American population. "McCain expects his core voters to come out" in Cincinnati, Rademacher says. "Obama is just trying to minimize the damage...