Why would this ***** off those of us on the Left?
Just once it would be nice if you lived up to your name.
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Black voters in Michigan say NO to the wife of the first black
president (HITLARY HAS A NEGRO PROBLEM)
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/15/michigan.uncommitted/index.html?section=cnn_latest
(CNN) -- While Sen. Hillary Clinton won a majority of Michigan
Democratic primary votes Tuesday, blacks and the youngest voters
favored the "uncommitted" choice.
Sen. Hillary Clinton did not remove her name from the ballot in the
Michigan Democratic primary.
According to CNN exit polling, 68 percent of blacks chose
uncommitted, compared with 30 percent for the Democratic front-
runner.
Forty-eight percent of all voters ages 18-29 voted uncommitted,
compared with 43 percent for Clinton. The former first lady took more
votes than uncommitted in all other age groups; the older the voters,
the wider the margin was.
The racial disparity could be a bad sign for Clinton going into the
South Carolina primary, where half of all Democratic voters are black.
Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama -- along with their surrogates and
supporters -- have been engaged in bickering since last weekend over
comments Clinton made about President Lyndon Johnson's contributions
to the Civil Rights movement.
Some African-American leaders criticized the remarks as dismissive of
the civil rights movement and of King. On Sunday, Obama described
Clinton's comments as "ill-advised" but rejected any suggestion that
his campaign has been behind the complaints.
By Monday, both candidates were calling for a truce.
Clinton was the only top-tier presidential candidate on the ballot in
the Democratic primary, and she carried 58 percent of the overall
vote, while 37 percent of the voters in the Democratic primary chose
to vote uncommitted.
Michigan's decision to move its primary to January 15 angered national
Democratic Party officials who were trying to slow the "front-loading"
by states of the primary process.
Obama of Illinois and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards withdrew
from the ballot as a show of solidarity, leaving a ballot of Clinton,
Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, former Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska and
Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who later withdrew from the race.
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