Who would have ever predicted that running openly race-baiting commercials against your opponent would be a bad thing:
Facing tons of negativity — Ku Klux Klan images, less-than-subtle references to his Jewish faith — incumbent Rep. Steve Cohen (who is white) easily won his primary against challenger Nikki Tinker (who is black) in yesterday’s Democratic primary in a majority-black congressional seat in Memphis, TN. Obama even weighed in on the race yesterday, saying in a statement that Tinker’s “incendiary and personal attacks have no place in our politics, and will do nothing to help the good people of Tennessee. It’s time to turn the page on a politics driven by negativity and division so that we can come together to lift up our communities and our country.” However, the Cohen folks weren’t all that pleased that Obama never endorsed Cohen over Tinker.
She probably not only lost that election, but has now ruined any future political career.
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