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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/us/politics/05blacks.html?partner=rss&emc=rss [2]


Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races


By JENNIFER STEINHAUER [3]
Published: May 4, 2010





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Among the many reverberations of President Obama [5]’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.





Barbara P. Fernandez for The New York Times

Allen West, running in Florida, says the notion of racism in the Tea Party movement has been made up by the news media.




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