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Her Democratic rivals, by comparison, have no history of mistakes on the big stage from which they could have derived hard lessons. (Guest spots on Oprah don’t count.) Obama claims superior “judgment” to Hillary because, as an Illinois State Senator, he opposed...
Last Thursday, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama emerged from the Iowa caucuses with a decisive victory over his two main opponents, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. At first glance, the wide margin of Obama’s victory might seem inexplicable. After all...
Yet Obama’s victory represents something more than a brief aberration in the ordinary political process. Obama won with enthusiastic support from more groups than his typical strongholds—college students and highly educated liberals. More women voted for Obama than for Clinton; more union members and...
Instead, Obama’s appeal across the boundaries of race, class, and gender is a testament to a less tangible difference that sets him apart from the rest of the Democratic field. That difference is his emphasis on change as the unifying theme of his campaign. Certainly, other candidates...
Once again, the Iowa caucuses provide evidence for the power of this message: Of the majority of caucus-goers who said that “change” was the single most important issue for them, more than half voted for Obama, compared to 19 for Clinton and 20 for...