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...implied slur of previous African-American politicians. Although Obama brushed aside the comment, other prominent African-Americans and much of the Washington political class came down hard on Biden. He apologized and Obama accepted, but Biden never gained traction, and dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, a year later...
Back in those snowy Iowa days, Biden was known for his blue-haired audiences. He would linger for hours, answering questions in a folksy way that seems to have an appeal to many white working class voters. Talking about his wife in Springfield, Biden invoked a bit of bawdy humor tailor-made for the beer-drinking crowd. "Ladies and gentlemen, my wife Jill, who you'll meet soon, is drop dead gorgeous," he said, placing such emphasis on the last three words that you got the impression he'd rather be smooching his wife than giving the speech...
...president of the two-million member Service Employees International Union, says Biden could help enormously in reaching "the people in our union who are skeptical about Barack Obama." Stern recalls that when Biden took up the union's challenge to work a day with one of its members in Iowa last year, the Delaware Senator asked to do it with a school custodian - and surprised the head building engineer at a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, middle school by actually knowing how to use a wrench...
...easy puzzle. From its beginning, Obama's impressive campaign has reached upmarket. His tone is perfectly middlebrow, which has made him irresistible to the wine-and-cheese lovers of the self-consciously sensible center. Republicans saw troubling signs of this way back in January's Iowa caucuses, when they discovered, to their shock, that Obama was actually pulling some moderate Republican voters away from the GOP caucus. His success in Iowa has been so complete that it may abandon its swing-state tendencies and move firmly into Obama's column. And it's not just Iowa. Last month...
...Francisco district attorney Kamala Harris, 43, is the first African American and first woman to hold her city's top law-enforcement post. The Howard University graduate spent several wintry days knocking on doors in Iowa for Obama. She comes to her activism honestly: her parents met at a Berkeley student protest. Another Obama backer is Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, one of only two current African-American governors. Patrick, 52, shocked the commonwealth's political establishment in 2006 when he came out of nowhere to defeat a long-favored Democrat in the primary and trounce an incumbent Republican lieutenant governor...