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[[Image:obama.jpg|thumb|right|Senator Barack Obama]]
 
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===Primary election (2004)===
 
===Primary election (2004)===
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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:  
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The ''[[People's Weekly World]]'' which 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 2004 Senate 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>  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|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,  
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