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| | [[Image:obama.jpg|thumb|right|Senator Barack Obama]] | | [[Image:obama.jpg|thumb|right|Senator Barack Obama]] |
| | ===Primary election (2004)=== | | ===Primary election (2004)=== |
| − | The ''[[People's Weekly World]]'' describes itself as "the direct descendant of the ''[[Daily Worker]]''" which enjoys "a special relationship with the [[Communist Party USA]], founded in 1919, and publish its news and views,"<ref>[http://www.pww.org/article/static/320 About the People's Weekly World] pww.org</ref> reported on Obama's primary campaign: | + | The ''[[People's Weekly World]]'' describes itself as "the direct descendant of the ''[[Daily Worker]]'' " and enjoys "a special relationship with the [[Communist Party USA]], founded in 1919, and publish its news and views,"<ref>[http://www.pww.org/article/static/320 About the People's Weekly World] pww.org</ref> reported on Obama's primary campaign: |
| | {{Cquote|Activists from Illinois were immersed in the campaign to elect Barak Obama to the U.S. Senate. Obama won a landslide victory in the March 16 Democratic primary. If Obama wins in November, he would be only the third African American senator since Reconstruction. <ref>''A turning point election'', Joelle Fishman, People's Weekly World, 04/24/04.</ref>}} and | | {{Cquote|Activists from Illinois were immersed in the campaign to elect Barak Obama to the U.S. Senate. Obama won a landslide victory in the March 16 Democratic primary. If Obama wins in November, he would be only the third African American senator since Reconstruction. <ref>''A turning point election'', Joelle Fishman, People's Weekly World, 04/24/04.</ref>}} and |
| − | {{Cquote|"This was a historic victory. It was a victory for political independence and grassroots, coalition, and issue oriented politics over the machine and money,” said John Bachtell, Illinois Communist Party district organizer.<ref>[http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/5145/ The CPUSA fires up its members to ‘Dump Bush!’], By Tim Wheeler, Washington correspondent, People's Weekly World , 04/24/04. </ref>}} | + | {{Cquote|This was a historic victory. It was a victory for political independence and grassroots, coalition, and issue oriented politics over the machine and money,}} said John Bachtell, Illinois Communist Party district organizer.<ref>[http://www.pww.org/article/articleprint/5145/ The CPUSA fires up its members to ‘Dump Bush!’], By Tim Wheeler, Washington correspondent, People's Weekly World , 04/24/04.</ref> A month later The ''People’s Weekly World'' carried an opinion piece by Dee Myles, chair of the education commission of the Communist Party USA eulogizing an old collegue of [[Frank Marshall Davis]], [[Vernon Jarrett]]. Myles said, |
| − | A month later The ''People’s Weekly World'' carried an opinion piece by Dee Myles, chair of the education commission of the Communist Party USA eulogizing an old collegue of [[Frank Marshall Davis]], [[Vernon Jarrett]]. Myles said, | |
| | {{Cquote|from his hospital bed, [Jarrett] wrote an article appealing to Black Chicago to turn out to vote for [[Barack Obama]] in the Illinois primaries. Obama astounded everyone with an incredible landslide victory as the progressive, Black candidate for the [[Democratic Party]] nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. From his sickbed, Vernon Jarrett issued a clarion call, and the people responded.<ref>[http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/5331/ Vernon Jarrett: a partisan journalistic giant], Dee Myles, [[People's Weekly World]] Newspaper, Jun 5, 2004.</ref>}} | | {{Cquote|from his hospital bed, [Jarrett] wrote an article appealing to Black Chicago to turn out to vote for [[Barack Obama]] in the Illinois primaries. Obama astounded everyone with an incredible landslide victory as the progressive, Black candidate for the [[Democratic Party]] nomination for the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois. From his sickbed, Vernon Jarrett issued a clarion call, and the people responded.<ref>[http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/5331/ Vernon Jarrett: a partisan journalistic giant], Dee Myles, [[People's Weekly World]] Newspaper, Jun 5, 2004.</ref>}} |
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