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Racial Tensions Threaten to Divide Democrats: Party Leaders Concerned Voters Will Not Unify After Nominee is Chosen
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Apr 30, 2008 03:57am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, April 30, 2008 09:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In the race to the Democratic nomination, tensions between the campaigns of rival Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., are so uncomfortable some party leaders are openly concerned Democratic voters will not unify after a nominee is chosen.
Much of the tension is based at least in part on racial divisions -- and into the dynamic walked the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's controversial former pastor.
Speaking the National Press Club in Washington on Monday, Wright called the recent criticism surrounding his sermons "an attack on the black church" explaining his emergence before a national audience, regardless of what harm it might do to the candidacy of Obama.
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