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Why You Can’t Tell the Truth About Race

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Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu is getting pilloried for saying some people in her home state are racist. This is absurd, and an insight to how the GOP is likely to win big on Tuesday.

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So here’s the climate we’re operating in, in three little Senate campaign vignettes.

Mitch McConnell sends out a mailer to eastern Kentucky voters that is obviously a voter-suppression device, designed to confuse voters into thinking that they’ll be breaking the law if they cast ballots.

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