Old polarities persist in Dem race ~ Associated Press

[mzmolly]

- Something happened to the feel-good, way-cool Democratic presidential contest in the months since a woman and a black man began their path-breaking race for the White House.

By the millions, black voters voted for the black candidate and women voted for the woman. White men seemed torn, by the millions.

Sen. Barack Obama has broken historic barriers, especially among the young, as the first black candidate with a serious chance at the presidency. Voters who might ordinarily balk at a female president have backed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in her pioneering effort.

Those gains have not been enough to erase divisions by race, a task perhaps beyond any mortal and any one election, nor lesser ones between the sexes.

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Whether clumsy, coarse or calculating, remarks by party stalwarts or hangers-on have brought race repeatedly into the discomfort zone, which is easy to do, suggesting a post-racial political consciousness is for a more distant future.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080315/ap_on_el_pr/polarized_politics">YAHOO/AP

Why are WE helping to divide our Party here? What can WE do to rise above the "race/gender" cards?

[mzmolly]

1. So much for that idea.

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