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Obama seeks to 'reconnect...young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women' for 2010 (Ben Smith, 4/27/10, Politico)

The Democratic National Committee this morning released this clip of the president rallying the troops, if rather coolly, for 2010. Obama's express goal: "reconnecting" with the voters who voted for the first time in 2008, but who may not plan to vote in the lower-profile Congressional elections this year.

Obama speaks with unusual demographic frankness about his coalition in his appeal to "young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 [to] stand together once again."

At the far end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge we arrive at the moment when a black president asks people to vote for him because of the color of their skin, not the content of his political character. Only Progressives can think that progress.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 27, 2010 11:54 AM