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Barack Obama’s bid for the US Democratic presidential nomination has been marred by the controversy over remarks made by his fomer pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

And now that relationship is being used by the Republicans in a strategy Democrats say is racially tinged.
 
We sent Max Blumenthal, a writer for the progressive magazine, The Nation, to the southern state of Mississippi. 

He asks if attack ads used in a congressional election there could be a sign of things to come.

Super Tuesday, the biggest day of presidential nominee voting in US history, has seen 24 states vote for Republican and Democratic candidates. Rob Reynolds, Al Jazeera’s senior Washington correspondent, looks at how the contest unfolded.

Riz discusses the US elections with Republican strategist Grover Norquist.

We discuss the results of Tuesday’s primaries where Hillary Clinton ended Barack Obama’s winning streak taking the states of Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island. The results also clear the way for republican candidate John McCain to secure his parties nomination.

US Republican presidential hopefuls are battling it out in Florida. Opinion polls ahead of their primary on Tuesday show Mitt Romney and John McCain in a tie. The two have been exchanging accusations on their stances of withdrawing US troops from Iraq, but some voters are more concerned with matters closer to home. Ana Rodriguez is a homeless Florida mother of four. She has no health insurance and says politicians don’t pay attention to people like her.Here’s her story in her own words.