Race Issue Injected Into Scandal Over President-Elect Obama's Former Senate Seat
If Roland Burris winds up being seated as the junior senator from Illinois, as seems increasingly likely, it will be in no small part because of the politics of race.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is scheduled to meet with Burris Wednesday morning, with momentum building for a deal that would allow Burris to fill the Senate seat through 2010.
Reid and other Senate Democrats promised not to seat anyone Gov. Rod Blagojevich sent to Washington.
But the image of a veteran black... Full Story
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