Obama and affirmative action

By Robert Schlesinger

Interesting piece in The Boston Globe — one of the reporters is a student of mine, I can happily relate — today regarding Barack Obama and the ongoing affirmative action debate.

Influential Republicans and a growing number of policy specialists at conservative organizations, including the Goldwater Institute, Project 21, and the Manhattan Institute, are citing the fact that large numbers of white voters are supporting Obama, who leads in the race for Democratic delegates, as evidence that affirmative action has run its course.

For the entire article, click here.

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