For President Obama, a Complex Calculus of Race and Politics

Since taking office, President Obama has attempted to balance two deeply held impulses: a belief in universal politics not based on race and an embrace of black life and its challenges. Full Story »

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Trisha Collopy
by Trisha Collopy - Oct. 21, 2012

The New York Times has run profiles of Obama and Romney in recent days; over the weekend the Star Tribune ran both side by side on its politics page. What's intriguing is that neither profile focused on the candidates' policies. Instead, each picked a feature of the candidate (Obama's views on race; Romney's vocabulary) that was supposed to tell us more about each man in a highly scripted campaign. Did it work?

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by Adebayo Taiwo - Oct. 22, 2012

The New York Times shifted Issues on Election to take a view on Obama's views on race and the challenges he has to face because he is an African American.I trust this publication because they gave multiple source of information to give their point of view on the subject and they gave conclusions with direct evidence. The only thing missing in this story is that it is one sided and it would be nice to see the challenges Miit Romney might be going through.

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