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...According to the vast majority of polls, today Barack Obama will be elected the 44th president of the United States. He will also become, as the press will surely note, the first black president of our country...
...Kenyan. Obama himself wrote movingly about his multicultural background in Dreams from My Father, and he speaks frequently about his diverse roots. Yet the public debate still centers over whether people will vote for a “black” president, whether Obama represents the interests of his black constituents, and whether he is in general “black enough...
...entering the practice of law,” Miner said of the time after he left his position as the head of Chicago’s legal department. “So I was reading every newspaper that came near me, and I saw an article about this black dude—this all turned out to be completely wrong factually—born in the ghettos of Chicago, raised in the slums, who got to Harvard Law School, became president of the Harvard Law Review, and was coming to Chicago to join a silk-stocking law firm...
...Congress before becoming governor, and Hillary Clinton, who barnstormed here on Friday. McCain appeared here in two rallies last week, where he focused on middle class economic issues. "That region has many people who like their guns, are fairly religious, and some have questions about voting for a black candidate," says Dave Cohen, a political science professor at the University of Akron. "But Obama has Strickland, which is a huge advantage...
...million on television advertising in the state between Oct. 21 and Oct. 28, according to a report released Friday by the Wisconsin Advertising Project. The Illinois senator has regularly visited the state and Friday night appeared in Lake County, which is just outside Chicago and boasts a large black population. Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, is scheduled to attend a rally Saturday in Evansville, in the state's southwest corner, which is viewed as being among Indiana's most socially conservative regions...