CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Primary Politics February 6, 2016
The years. And every once in a while this system almost breaks down and we have an oldfashioned, tough contested primary. Let me read you the beginning of the book as an illustration of that. Senator Hillary Clinton walked into the small Conference Room on capitol hill wearing one of her signature pants suits. This one still with white piping. It was may twentysecond 2008 and she was in the homestretch of the race for the democratic nomination. Along the way, her once surefire quest had run into a phenomenon, a first term senator from illinois, half white, half africanamerican named barack oba...