1.0 link 116928 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-winant/once-again-obama-should-a_b_116928.html Let's start with this: the Republican Party is the white party. It attracts tiny percentages of black voters, and way fewer Latinos than it did even in 2004. Still got some Cuban Americans and a token conservative of color or two, maybe some Asian Americans uncomfortable with their lingering racial otherness. But basically it's a restricted scene, like some suburban golf club. Wait until the Republican convention happens in Minneapolis: it's going to be a sea of whiteness. Whatever black...

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