Opinion: Paul Jenkins: Clinton: Not Exactly The Great White Hope external link

Huffington Post | by Paul Jenkins | Sat, Apr 26

Were Hillary Clinton the great rural white savior that her campaign is depicting, she would have had this thing wrapped up in, say, Iowa, or a couple of weeks after that. Her inability to dispatch a presidential neophyte such as Barack Obama in a Democratic primary is precisely because, af...

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