Senator Barack Obama does not even have the Democratic nomination and a prelude to the campaign to come is shaping up in Mississippi, where the Republicans have launched a campaign based on race to hold onto a congressional seat.
Voters go to the polls on Tuesday in the mostly white and conservative district and in a campaign that smacks of desperation the Republicans have started to play the old race card. The words liberal and conservative are being used as proxies for black and white.
Read the article in today's New York Times
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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