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In Selma, McCain Recalls Civil Rights March

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(Via ABC News.)

Far from the Democratic battlefield of Pennsylvania, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was campaigning where GOP candidates for president rarely go because they don’t have to.

McCain chose Alabama, one of the reddest states on the Electoral College map, to launch a week-long swing through some of the nation’s economically distressed areas.

Even more extraordinary, McCain went to Selma, the site of one of the most notorious episodes of the Civil Rights movement, and talked about that episode.

Instead of a standard stump speech, he used vivid imagery to describe a dark chapter in the city’s racially-divided history. When Republicans running for president campaign in the South, they don’t often raise the uncomfortable subject of its racially segregated and violent past.