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...Bradley entered politics, running for and winning election as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey in 1978. He served in this position for three terms and retired into the private sector...
...Race is one of the fundamental elements of my campaign. . . . It is who I am, it's what I live," he has said. In nearly every stump speech, Bradley says he has a deep commitment in furthering racial unity, which has been present since his days as a professional basketball player. As President, Bradley says he would sign an executive order ending racial profiling. He says he would work hard to maintain and expand affirmative action programs. And he says he would hold his staff accountable for their own commitment to racial justice...
However, despite this focus, Bradley has gained very little support among most black voters. Polls of southern black voters, a key Democratic constituency, shows they overwhelmingly support Al Gore...
...Bill Bradley was born in 1943 in Crystal City, Mo., where he lived until he left to attend college at Princeton University. There, he was a star on the school's basketball team. After graduation in 1965, he attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He then had a successful 10 year career in the National Basketball Association, playing as guard for the New York Knicks. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame...
...until the end, Bill Bradley insisted he would surprise people on Tuesday. But as the dust settled, everybody was surprised by the size of Al Gore's blowout victory over the former U.S. senator from New Jersey. Projections revealed a clean sweep for Gore among the 13 Super Tuesday states, including delegate-rich California, New York and Ohio, and a surprisingly large margin in Missouri, where Bradley was born and raised...