2008.03.30
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Clinton's strategy engages divisiveness
By Reginald Shareef
Shareef is a professor of political science/public administration at Radford University.
Sen. Hillary Clinton's kitchen-sink strategy -- an updated version of the Nixon/Atwater/Rove Southern Strategy -- was designed to undermine the public's confidence in her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama. This strategy represents the epitome of the politics of divisiveness. While the older version of the Southern Strategy sought only to use race as a wedge issue, Clinton has added a second poisonous arrow to her quiver -- the whispering campaign that Obama is a Muslim.
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