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Debasing the debate

By Yvonne Abraham

 |  Globe Columnist  

  May 10, 2012

It’s easy to see why US Senator Scott Brown and his campaign love the controversy over opponent Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American heritage. Here Warren, a smart, formidable candidate, has managed to look pretty silly. And so she has given Brown a gift, which he and his campaign have used as a very useful distraction, and a way to engage in the dog-whistle politics of race. The first is understandable, the second reprehensible.

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