... in politics as usual, that black people voted for black candidates because they were black, and white people didn't because the black candidates Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton failed to offer any mainstream ...

... that his landslide win in South Carolina's presidential primary marks a turn in political history, showing that a black candidate can appeal to voters of all colors and in all regions. The Illinois senator told a raucous crowd of more than 9 ...

... primary, the Clintons would try to snap victory from the jaws of defeat by marginalizing Obama by labeling him the "black candidate." Everything was going according to plan. On Saturday Bill Clinton told reporters in response to Obama's win ...

... hopefulness that, by some kind of irony that the Clintons have managed to finesse, Obama has been marginalized as a black candidate. How splendid for Hillary's political ambition if a potentially transcendent racial figure may have been put in ...

... people's will. What Obama is not saying, because he doesn't have to say it or want to say it, is this: If the black candidate has the most earned delegates via the voters, surely the Democratic Party wouldn't want its super-delegates to ...

... Obama won South Carolina's primary in January. The former president suggested Obama had won simply because he was a black candidate campaigning in a state with a lot of black voters. Since then, while Hillary Clinton has run strong among whites ...

... inexcusable remarks both before and after the South Carolina primary that the Clintons' strategy was to label Obama the black candidate, which worked, but at the same time did great harm to Hillary. Furthermore, it's not surprising that a party ...

... primary and then four years later? Bill tried to marginalize Obama. He was not the transcendent figure; he was the "black candidate." But unlike Jackson, Obama wasn't immediately viewed as a divisive figure. He held onto upper-class white ...

... Clinton tried marginalizing Obama by labeling him the "black candidate." Clinton told reporters in response to Obama ... context of Democratic primary, going up against a black candidate, that he would use race as a political weapon with ...

... be contrary to how all other black candidates have fared in top-of-the ... break its string of not electing black candidates to major offices. Though the ... isn't the best test of how black candidates can expect to fare here ...