Word: jacksonism
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...witness the huge crowds of people the Presidential contender has drawn in Iowa and New Hampshire, or his best-selling book. But one of the many unknowns about Obama is how black activists and voters will respond to a different kind of candidacy for an African-American hopeful. Jesse Jackson's focus on the underclass and poverty didn't win him the Democratic nomination in 1988, but Obama would surely like to win the 90% of the black vote in most states that Jackson...
...mixed-race background, with a white mother from Kansas and a black father from Kenya, but his rhetoric, most notably his 2004 Democratic National Convention speech, emphasizes the importance of Americans moving beyond political, religious and racial differences. He rarely makes explicit appeals based on his race the way Jackson did. " A lot of black people aren't ready to get beyond race, because race puts them in the situation they're in," said Ron Walters, a professor at the University of Maryland who worked on Jesse Jackson's Presidential runs. "But many whites want to get beyond the past...
...nasty one, Paula's the supportive one and Randy's the moderate one, the cool judge whose laid-back style and constructive criticism tend to strike a more reasoned note when the other two go over the top, which they often do. Like Simon and Paula, Randy Jackson has become a celebrity in his own right judging hundreds of warbling American Idol wannabes each week on Fox's unbeatable talent competition, which has steamrolled into its sixth season, debuting with its highest ratings ever. TIME's Jeanne McDowell talked to Jackson - the man who introduced "dawg" and "pitchy" into...
...Jackson: It started off with a bang. It's still about trying to discover the best new talent we can find. People either love the early rounds or hate them. There's no middle ground. I think the early rounds show the audience what we actually go through before we get to the finalists. We show them the good, the bad, the everything...
...seem as predictable as the wintry, gray skies over Lake Michigan this time of year. Here, in the largest U.S. city without mayoral term limits, Daley's fleeting weakness vanished almost overnight following the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives, when two would-be mayoral rivals, Congressmen Jesse Jackson Jr. and Luis Guttierez, decided it could be a lot more fun to stay in Washington. Political insiders have also suggested that even these ballyhooed potential opponents might not have had campaign operations robust enough or financially equipped to overtake the Daley machine...