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Article: THE BIG IF ... HOW BIG A FACTOR IS JESSE JACKSON'S COLOR?
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- March 13, 1988
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DRAWING
Jesse Jackson -- pulling in lots of delegates. (INX Graphic)
THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION.
He has charisma. He has issues. He doesn't flip flop. And, in the aftermath of Super Tuesday, he has a bushel of delegates.
If Jesse Jackson were white, would he win the Democratic presidential nomination?
"If he were white, he wouldn't be in the race," says Ben J. Wattenberg, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and co-editor of Public Opinion magazine.
Wattenberg argues a black could be elected president in the America of 1988, but not one with Jackson's lack of office-holding experience nor a ''blame-America-first business-bashing radical" ...