Hillary Losing Support of Blacks

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Black voters have been deeply loyal to the Democratic Party and to the Clintons, but they are more devoted to the dream of having a black president for the first time.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has been engaged in racially tinged political banter with Sen. Barack Obama since her win in New Hampshire, is losing ground in polls with black voters nationally and in South Carolina, where about half of Democratic primary voters will be black.

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Hillary Losing Support of Blacks

Morris Reid, a former Clinton administration staffer, said Mr. Obama's ascendancy in the campaign is the "worst-case scenario" for Mrs. Clinton, who is in "no-win situation" with black voters.

"This movement has become bigger than Barack Obama, as it always d...

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