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...Later that night Kelly Hu, of X-Men fame, held two fund raisers at Hollywood nightclubs for young Asian Americans supporting Obama. "He really speaks to the younger generation," said Hu, who also knocked on doors in Nevada before the caucuses and drove to San Francisco last week to rally supporters. "He speaks to Asian Americans because he's lived amongst us in Asia and in Hawaii. But even if he hadn't, he would still be the most inspiring candidate I've ever seen...
...Fairly or unfairly, however, race has been injected into the Clinton-Obama contest in the past few weeks. Until the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary, Obama, who is half-white, half-black, pretty much transcended race, winning Iowa, which is 95% white, and placing a close second in New Hampshire, which is 96% white. But in subsequent weeks both campaigns traded charges of race baiting. Obama accused Clinton of politicizing Nevada's Latino vote and Clinton accused Obama of using her and her husband's remarks on civil rights out of context with black voters. Whatever the intentions...
...army. His campaign has become the first in decades - maybe in history - to be carried so far on the backs of the young. His crushing margin of victory in Iowa came almost entirely from voters under 25 years old, and as the race moved to New Hampshire and Nevada, their votes helped him stay competitive. In South Carolina on Saturday, Jan. 26, Obama's better than 3-to-1 advantage among under-30 voters more than neutralized Clinton's narrower edge among over-65s. Now, as the candidates shift to the coast-to-coast, Dixie-to-Dakota battlefield...
...hopes of the former President's wife. But Hillary Clinton answered with her own organizational prowess, whipping up huge numbers of working-class, female and older Democrats. Only the students have kept Obama in contention: in New Hampshire, his edge among young voters was 3 to 1; in Nevada, it was 2 to 1; and in Michigan, nearly 50,000 under-30s voted "Uncommitted" because Clinton's name was the only one on the ballot. In a year of unprecedented levels of participation by Democrats of all ages, Obama is counting on a youthquake that reverberates upward. On the short...
...slow, hard work of grassroots organizing. Now it's the opposite. On Feb. 5, half the remaining states will vote, including those with megapopulations such as California, Arizona, Georgia and New York State. What's more, the rules are less favorable to student organizers. Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada all had some of the most liberal voting laws in the country. Same-day registration meant that first-time voters could be swept to the polls by a last-minute appeal. By contrast, those Missouri volunteers and their counterparts in many other states face the hard fact that students who weren...