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...against the wife of the man Toni Morrison suggested was "the first black President," it was perhaps inevitable that a battle over race would be joined at some point. It took the form of an arch and insidery back-and-forth between the candidates over the role that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. played in the civil rights movement...
...Rev. Fred Armfield, pastor of the Little Zion AME Church in Greenwood, says the black church has all but lost its electoral influence over African-American voters, and he's glad. "This generation has grown and is intelligent enough that it doesn't need a driver at the polls," says Armfield. "I don't take a position from the pulpit. I know the people in my congregation are independent thinkers." That said, however, he's backing Clinton. "The Clintons have always been good to the African-American community, and I'm staying with them," he says. He knows many black...
...Justice Stephen G. Breyer to chef Jacques Pépin. The field of 83 experts—“well-known, well-respected, and influential,” according to Hopkins—counts 11 Harvard professors, including psychology professor Steven Pinker, law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, and Rev. Peter J. Gomes, as well as three presidential hopefuls. “We have a pretty broad set of interests, anything intelligent people might have a fancy for,” Hopkins said. “In that regard, there’s really no limit...
...along at just the right time. They feel that Republicans have given them lip service without taking their concerns seriously. Huckabee's sincerity is not in doubt. But Evangelicals rarely move in unison. Previous candidates who tried to win the nomination by monopolizing them have had their moments--the Rev. Pat Robertson did surprisingly well in the Iowa caucuses in 1988--but eventually lost. Usually Evangelicals have split their vote, and their influence has thus permeated the party. When all the candidates have a shot at evangelical voters, all have an incentive to court them...
...brings up one other development in the race, something Republicans haven't encountered since they locked arms with the Moral Majority in 1979: the party's evangelical base has declared independence from its leaders. This fall, the Old Guard of the Christian right serially christened their preferred candidates. The Rev. Pat Robertson went for Giuliani; the National Right to Life Committee came out for Thompson; Bob Jones III and Paul Weyrich endorsed Romney. Few believed that Huckabee, the ordained Southern Baptist who actually seemed to be one of them, could win. And then, lo and behold, rank-and-file Evangelicals...