1.0 link 139652 <![CDATA[Cleland Worried About "White Backlash" To Obama]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/31/cleland-worried-about-whi_n_139652.html Max Cleland, the former Senator from Georgia who has taken on an active role helping Democrats campaign in that state, expressed concern that there would be a certain amount of "white backlash" to Barack Obama in the South.

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Cleland lauded the Illinois Democrat for changing the political landscape in "fundamental" ways, through "massive new registration of voters, many of them African-American." But he warned that there would be "a certain white backlash against that,...

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