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Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.
Racist incidents around the US, following the election of Barack Obama
to the next presidency, have dampened thoughts of racial progress in
the country.
Threats against a new president historically spike right after an
election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing
more against Barack Obama than ever before. The Secret Service would
not comment or provide the number of cases they are investigating. But
since the Nov. 4 election, law enforcement officials have seen more
potentially threatening writings, Internet postings and other activity
directed at Obama than has been seen with any past president-elect,
said officials aware of the situation who spoke on condition of
anonymity because the issue of a president's security is so sensitive.
President-elect Barack Obama, who said lobbyists would not run his
White House, signaled Tuesday that lobbyists could serve in his
transition so long as their activities do not involve areas of policy
they have tried to influence in the past year.
The election has left the Republican Party reeling, its base shrunk to
those Southern, Plains and Mountain West states where rural cultures
still predominate.
His name was invoked at church services nationwide on Sunday, but
President-elect Obama didn't attend any of them. He went to the gym
instead.
Two former White House chiefs of staff have urged President-elect
Barack Obama to keep the focus of his transition and early
administration on the issue that got him elected, the economy.
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