It’s admittedly a stretch, but there is a glass-half-full way to see the racial divide in the Tuesday’s West Virginia primary. When Rev. Jesse Jackson ran his campaign for president in 1988, he got 14 percent of the vote against eventual nominee Michael Dukakis. Not only did Illinois Sen. Barack Obama get almost double the percentage of the vote that Jackson got 20 years earlier, in terms of the raw vote totals he got more than four times the actual votes that Jackson got during his landmark campaign.
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Isaiah Poole |
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- Isaiah J. Poole is the executive editor of OurFuture.org, the website of Campaign for America's Future. He has been a journalist for more than 25 years, most recently at Congressional Quarterly, where he covered congressional leadership and tracked major bills through Congress. During his mostly Washington-based career he has written articles on topics ranging from presidential politics to pop culture. He is also a founding member of the Washington Association of Black Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. He is a native Washingtonian.
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- Isaiah J. Poole is the executive editor of OurFuture.org, the website of Campaign for America's Future. He has been a journalist for more than 25 years, most recently at Congressional Quarterly, where he covered congressional leadership and tracked major bills through Congress. During his mostly Washington-based career he has written articles on topics ranging from presidential politics to pop culture. He is also a founding member of the Washington Association of Black Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. He is a native Washingtonian.
Chasing The Rainbow: Is Racial Healing Within Our Reach? |
| By: Isaiah Poole Thursday May 15, 2008 6:58 am |
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Hillary Takes A Great Leap Backwards |
| By: Isaiah Poole Thursday May 8, 2008 12:45 pm |
At a time when progressives are calling for unity so that we can get on to the business of ending this mad era of the Bush administration, Sen. Hillary Clinton has unfortunately taken a step in the opposite direction.
Her interview with USA Today, in which she presents herself as the candidate with the “broader base” because Sen.
McCain’s Ideology Collapses in the Emergency Room |
| By: Isaiah Poole Thursday May 8, 2008 8:30 am |
I get that Sen. John McCain thinks I have too cushy a deal with my health insurance. What I don’t get is how all of McCain’s free-market fundamentalism on health care is supposed to help make sure my neighborhood hospital is up and running when I need it.
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