First-timers, blacks help give Obama a victory
USA TODAY, May, 2008 by Fredreka Schouten
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Emma Sell-Goodhand and Gerrie Freeman voted on opposite ends of town in the Democratic presidential primary Tuesday, but they were in agreement on at least one thing: They are eager to see Barack Obama become their party's nominee.
"I've only known Clintons and Bushes in the White House my whole life," said Sell-Goodhand, an 18-year-old senior at the Durham School of the Arts. "The idea of something new is important to me."
Freeman, 60, said she weighed voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton, and, like many fellow blacks, had supported Bill Clinton in his White House bids. "But I decided that voting for her is just putting Bill back in there for eight years. He's had his chance."
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