- Two-thirds of voters interviewed in exit polls said they made their decision on the basis of the two South Carolina debates, where Gingrich exploited racial resentment and hatred of the news media to connect with furious voters.
- Republican Attacks Have Racist Undertones
- Is Rick Santorum for Apartheid or Ethnic Cleansing or What?
New York (NY) Times / Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune
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Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich waves to the crowd after speaking during a†South Carolina Republican presidential primary night rally, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, in Columbia, S.C. Callista Gingrich looks on at right.
Since it was first held 32 years ago, the South Carolina Republican primary has been won by the party’s most electable candidate, the one backed by the Republican establishment and invariably the winner of the nomination.
On Saturday(Jan 21), the state veered in an extreme direction, and the outcome spoke poorly for a party that allowed itself to be manipulated by the lowest form of campaigning.
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Republican Attacks Have Racist Undertones, Andrew Rosenthal, New York (NY) Times
Talking about race in American politics is uncomfortable and awkward. But it has to be said: There has been a racist undertone to many of the Republican attacks leveled against President Obama for the last three years, and in this dawning presidential campaign.
Is Rick Santorum for Apartheid or Ethnic Cleansing or What? Robert Wright, Atlantic
- So which is it? Is Rick Santorum in favor of apartheid or ethnic cleansing or the left-wing variant of the one-state solution, in which Palestinians are given the vote? Or is there a fourth alternative I haven't thought of?
- Republican Attacks Have Racist Undertones
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Sen. Marco Rubio would have more credibility calling out Newt Gingrich for an "inflammatory" immigration ad against Mitt Romney if all three of them weren't so wrong on immigration issues. Rubio and the two leading Republican presidential contenders embrace unenlightened positions on immigration, and they cling to outdated, isolationist policy toward Cuba as Florida and Tampa Bay benefit from the Obama administration's reforms. The candidates pandered on immigration again Thursday night in a debate in Jacksonville, five days before Tuesday's primary election.
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A person portraying a blacksmith inspects a "slave" during a re-enactment of a mid-19th century slave auction in St. Louis, Missouri on Jan. 15. Such portrayals of U.S. history have become heated with recent pushes in states like Tennessee and Texas to overhaul how it is taught.
Barack Obama has not just dribbled away the progressive mandate of 2008, he has emerged over the past three years as a politician "to the right of President Ronald Reagan, the Tea Party hero" on at least some issues. The U.S. continues its steady decline in all the indices that count for the average person. "Only three developed countries – Albania, Russian and Moldova – had a worse maternal mortality rate." African Americans are in free fall under the First Black President.
