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Democrats hope Obama 2008 model will help stem midterm losses

By:  Chris Cillizza Washington Post Staff  Writer To become the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama not only won heavy percentages of the black and Hispanic vote but also managed to trim the Democratic Party’s traditional deficit among white voters. Four years after Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) lost the white vote by 17 percentage [...]

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