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Article: Delegates must weigh electability ; Enlightenment ends in private ballot box.
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- May 4, 2008
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This is a sensitive issue, but it needs to be discussed. When the
unpledged Democratic "super delegates" finally look hard at the
electability factor, they will be compelled to judge whether Barack
Obama would be a risky nominee because of his race.
In the end, this might not be a deal breaker. But right now it
can hardly be ignored - not after what we learned in Pennsylvania,
where, according to the final exit polls, 12 percent of white
Democratic primary voters said that race mattered in their choice of
candidate ... and of those whites, 76 percent chose Hillary Clinton
over Obama.
Think about that for a moment.
If 12 percent of the white Pennsylvania Democratic electorate -
in a closed ...
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