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Slate Writer Admits Democratic Electoral Race-Baiting, Then Airbrushes it Away

Mary Katharine Ham | January 21, 2008 1:46 PM

"Oh, did I say that Democratic strategists have long known that the best way to boost the black vote is to repeatedly suggest that there's a sinister plot by eeeevil, mustache-twirling Republicans to suppress the voices of brown people, even though it's not true?

Because, I didn't mean that. Strike that. Forget you ever heard it. Nothing to see here."