The Obama Cover: What's the Point?

The Obama Cover: What’s the Point?

By Madison Powers, Guest Columnist and CQ Staff

Posted July 16, 2008 at 12:00am

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Madison Powers is Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears regularly on Wednesday in CQ Politics.

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