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Article: VOA NEWS: CANDIDATES USE IDENTITY POLITICS TO ATTRACT VOTES

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April 4, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Jeffrey Young

It is human nature for people to associate with and support others like themselves - based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender and other factors. In this segment of How America Elects, VOA's Jeffrey Young examines the impact of so-called identity politics.

Presidential contender Barack Obama went into the South Carolina Democratic Party primary in January with opinion surveys showing him to be the choice of about 60 percent of that state's African-American Democrats. But exit polls that day showed that Senator Obama finished with more than 80 percent of their votes. Political analysts say that surge was the result of ...

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