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'Skinny kid with a funny name' reshapes US politics

Mail & Guardian Online: "It was not entirely clear what that change would mean in practice, but it was always clear what it would look like. Him. With a Kenyan father, Kansan mother, raised in Hawaii, studied at Harvard, some believed that literally he embodied change. From the outset he had described himself as 'a skinny kid with a funny name'. That his name was neither Clinton nor Bush may have mattered more than the fact that it rhymed with 'Osama'.

These are early days. The polls have him trailing Clinton in every state apart from his own. On Tuesday he must do it all again in New Hampshire, where Clinton has stronger roots and until recently had a sizeable lead, which he has been closing. In the language of American commentators, Iowa will provide a bounce that could in turn give him momentum. In"

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