article_snippet: Then, support for a senator named Barack Obama blew up after the Iowa caucuses.
article_snippet: We can chalk up some of that rhetoric to spirited campaign-trail junk-talking, and obviously much has happened since the 2008 election.  
article_snippet: But that does not mean black voters will completely forget the bitter, racially tinged presidential campaign politics of seven years ago.
article_snippet: Support for Obama does not necessarily translate into support for another Democrat.  
highlights_snippet: Memories of the bitter 2008 battle with Barack Obama still linger, Memories of the bitter 2008 battle with Barack Obama writes .