Would Obama Be Leading the Democratic Race if He Were White?

By Stuart Rothenberg
Roll Call Contributing Writer

March 21, 2008, 3:34 p.m.

When former Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (D-N.Y.) asserted that “if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position,” she caused a mini media frenzy and was forced to step down from the Clinton campaign’s finance committee.

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