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#BernieMadeMeWhite: Clinton and the new three-fifths rule

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Carl Beijer
Mar 13, 2016
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For most of the Democratic primaries, Clinton’s campaign has enjoyed the opportunity of dismissing Bernie Sanders supporters as largely white. This was always more of a symptom of name recognition problems than anything, but as Sanders supporters have acknowledged from the beginning, it was also a deficit that he needed to remedy.

As Sanders does so, how…

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