Published 11/12/2008
by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart
at CNN Political Ticker
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A national poll released Tuesday suggests that for most African-Americans, the election of Barack Obama as president was a dream come true that they didn't think they would see in their lifetimes.
That's how 80 percent of African-Americans questioned in the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey responded; 20 percent disagreed. Among white Americans, only [...]
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