Analysis: SC Strategy Focused on Race

AP ^ | 01/26/2008 | NEDRA PICKLER

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WASHINGTON (AP) - South Carolina is where two presidential candidates lectured the media for focusing on race, but behind the scenes worked furiously to use the state's diversity to their advantage.

Race is an uncomfortable thing to discuss, especially in a national political campaign where you are trying to win the support of a majority white electorate. Nevertheless, both Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton had a strategy in South Carolina focused on race.

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As Clinton saw her lead slip away, her campaign began calculating how she could afford to lose ... being that a win there would be expected from a black candidate and not an indicator of national strength.

Sound familiar?

[bill1952]

Its very quiet around FR on the voting day. - whats up?
Who is doing what?

[Hardastarboard]

It is the height of irony, which I’m sure history will highlight, that black Americans struggled for hundreds of years to be free, only to vote themselves (and the rest of us) back into slavery within two generations.

[JLS]

but behind the scenes worked furiously to use the state's diversity to their advantage.

Liberal code words like this just strike me funny.