08 Presidential Candidates, Political Analysis

Clinton’s support among African-Americans has been greatly dissipated by Barack Obama’s candidacy.  It is no secret she has attempted to recapture that voting segment, from trips to Selma, Alabama to commemorate the civil rights movement, (right after Obama made the trip to Selma) to her proclamation of the Rutgers’ womens’ basketball team as heroes.  A year or two after her joke that Mahatma Gandhi, one of the world’s greatest peace leaders of the past century, as “Didn’t he run some gas station in St. Louis?”, Senator Clinton’s racial politics problems continue.  See http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/04/hillarys_reverse_sister_soulja.html.