The general election campaign began with Tuesday night's victory
speeches by John McCain and Barack Obama, and when nominations are set
pundits need a new parlor game to play. Thus, the veep-stakes talk is
sure to start. Hillary Clinton's last bastion of ardent supporters,
older white women, face a demographic disappointment in her failure,
and presumptive nominee Obama needs a way to address this. While the
historic identity politics of the 2008 Democratic race have swung more
dramatically in Obama's favor, with his 90% margins with black voters,
it's Clinton who has played the identity politics card more
explicitly.

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