Identity Politics

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Young Voters, Identity Politics

Ben Terris | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home

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"McCain understands people like him better than he does people like us, so his tax plans will help the rich, not the people who need it the most. I want to vote for someone who will look out for me."

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Clinton To Obama: If You Don't Want Me, You're Gonna Have To Tell Me

Jane Hamsher | Posted 06.04.2008 | Home

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Typically, identity politics is a tactic that Democrats employ against Republicans. This time, it was the blueprint for a battle fought within the Democratic party.

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John Edwards Win Seven Percent Of West Virginia Primary

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

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AFP notes a strange trend in the West Virginia primary: the surprising turnout of John Edwards. Clinton beat Obama by a bruising 67 to 26 percent in ...

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SNL's Brilliant "Sore Loser" Sketch Illuminates Senator Clinton's Shadows

David Quigg | Posted 05.12.2008 | Media

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Senator Clinton will get the last word on this. Once she officially loses the nomination, she can make the Poehler sketch look ridiculous. Or she can make it look like prophecy.

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Calling "These People" Out: More On the Increasingly Tiresome -- And Dangerous -- Obama/Clinton Divide

Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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The pundits would like to see (and, sadly, are now seeing) women tearing each other apart, in this election season, within variously productive and destructive discourses of identity politics.

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Hosannas Spiked With Contempt

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 03.06.2008 | Home

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Those who sing his praises repeatedly claim Barack Obama carries none of the "bad" black-American cultural baggage. But I do, and I ain't giving it up.

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Roy Sekoff with Dan Abrams on Obama vs. Clinton and Racial Politics

Huff TV | Posted 01.15.2008 | Politics

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I Love the 90s: Gender, Race and the Clintons

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics

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Hillary has begun a campaign based on rigorous 1990s politics of identity, a game at which the Clintons excel, using one group against another as the need arises.

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