Word: maraniss
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...First, minority voters. As David Maraniss recalled in his biography of Bill Clinton, First in His Class, the 1972 campaign was the first time minority communities in Texas demanded a seat at the table. In the years since, Latinos and African Americans have come to make up roughly half of the Lone Star Democratic electorate - and a majority of the state party's power brokers. Democrats control 13 of Texas' 32 congressional districts, and nine of those seats are occupied by minority lawmakers. Obama can count on strong support from African Americans in cities like Dallas and Houston, and that...
...them so much trouble. Each Clinton has a character flaw that gets in the other's way. His is a sloppy self-indulgence. Hers is a haughty grandiosity--the tendency to think that because she is devoted to doing good, she is also entitled to do well. Biographer David Maraniss reports how she complained about not having a pool at the Governor's house in Little Rock. There wasn't a lot of surprise in Arkansas over the disclosure of her shady cattle-futures investment or their Whitewater deal...