Tackling a Sensitive Topic at a Sensitive Moment, for Disparate Audiences

Kay Farley, a retired high school teacher in Denver, decided to support Barack Obama for president because she thought the senator from Illinois had a better chance of being elected than Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). That confidence was shaken last week when incendiary excerpts of sermons...
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Alec MacGillis and Eli Saslow

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