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  Coalition Supporting Reid After 'Negro' Remark Starts to Crack
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Last EditedPenn Con  Jan 12, 2010 12:25pm
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News DateTuesday, January 12, 2010 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe coalition of Democrats and civil rights leaders supporting Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the wake of his controversial remark about President Obama started to crack a little Tuesday, as one Senate Democrat said he wasn't sure Reid should keep his leadership post and the niece of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. blasted the Nevada Democrat.

Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told a local television station late Monday that he's still mulling whether Reid should stay or step down after Reid was quoted in a book saying Obama in 2008 could benefit from being light-skinned and not having a "Negro dialect" unless he wants one
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