Coded language on the campaign trail
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The race for delegates rages on and the political rhetoric continues to heat up as voters in 12 states head to the polls this Super Tuesday.
MPR News host Kerri Miller enlisted the help of Ian F. Haney Lopez, the director of the Racial Politics Project at UC-Berkeley, and Kathleen Searles, Assistant Professor of Political Communication at Louisiana State University, to sift through candidates' stump speeches and dissect the coded language being used to describe issues on race and gender.
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