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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Obama was able to avoid talking identity politics too much because his skin color has agency when it comes to those issues and he benefited from an expansion of his base (plus the fact that the last Republican to hold office before him was a fucking fool) as a result.
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He was able to essentially send (or emphasize) different messages to different groups -- perhaps what you're getting at with your reference to his skin color.
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