Hillary And The Racist Gap
Amy Poehler's SNL sketch was hilarious because it called out the Clinton campaign on its not-so-subtle identity politics. Last night, Clinton all but made West Virginia '08 into Alabama '64.
Amy Poehler's SNL sketch was hilarious because it called out the Clinton campaign on its not-so-subtle identity politics. Last night, Clinton all but made West Virginia '08 into Alabama '64.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics
USA Today notices that Sen. Hillary Clinton has begun referring explicitly to her appeal among white voters while on the campaign trail: Hillary Rodh...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
DLC operatives recognize how quickly the political process is moving past the black-white racial politics towards a Sunbelt strategy targeting a more diverse country.
Dylan Loewe | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
What was viewed as a potentially fatal political problem only days ago has become the master stroke of Obama's candidacy.
NY Times | Orlando Patterson | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
ON first watching Hillary Clinton's recent "It's 3 a.m." advertisement, I was left with an uneasy feeling that something was not quite right -- someth...
Daily Kos | Markos Moulitsas | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
More classiness, from one of Clinton's top surrogates, Geraldine Ferraro. If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he w...
America Blog | John Ararvosis | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics
Via America Blog: I went and got the original footage from the Clinton ad, and then compared it to 3 different video clips of the same debate from 3 ...
Politico | Josephine Hearn | Posted 02.29.2008 | Politics
African-American superdelegates said Thursday that they'll stand up against threats, intimidation and "Uncle Tom" smears rather than switch their supp...
Dallas Morning News | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics
Hillary Rodham Clinton rejected comments Wednesday from one of her supporters, Dallas Hispanic leader Adelfa Callejo, who said that black politicians...
NY Times' The Caucus | C.J. Hughes | Posted 01.21.2008 | Politics
On the eve of Martin Luther King Day, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton snagged an endorsement Sunday from Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, the influential pasto...
Real Clear Politics | Robert Novak | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
With Barack Obama nipping at her heels in Iowa, Hillary Clinton went on the state's public television Dec. 14 to say: "I've been vetted. ... There are...
The Hill | Klaus Marre | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
The campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) recycled a nine-month-old endorsement from an NAACP leader earlier this week when the discussion ab...
Boston Globe | David Abel | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
Martin Luther King III, in Boston for an announcement that the city will build a statue to honor his parents, said yesterday that Senator Hillary Clin...
Washington Post | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics
As a controversy over racially charged politics threatened to spin out of control and supporters of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Oba...
New York Times | Adam Nagourney and Patrick Healy | Posted 01.12.2008 | Politics
RENO, Nev. -- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday accused Senator Barack Obama's campaign of distorting her remarks to suggest that she had cas...
Jeff Chang | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics