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Black voters and the 2016 primaries, Part 1: Name recognition

Black voters and the 2016 primaries, Part 1: Name recognition

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Carl Beijer
Feb 23, 2016
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As the Democratic primaries depart the relatively white states of the northeast, Bernie Sanders has begun to encounter what the media calls Hillary Clinton’s “firewall”: her decisive advantage among voters of color. Routinely, liberal media understands this as a simple indication of comparative preference for Clinton’s agenda over that of Sanders. But a…

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