He's saying it's time for a new face of the Democratic Party. He's not just saying, 'Akaka is old and I'm young,' he's saying he represents a new generation.

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Right now, everyone is starting from scratch. To me, there's no obvious front-runner. None of them has really set up organizations.

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It's really not per se the color that matters; it's that they're not part of the money networks. People in minority groups typically are lower-income, and they don't' have access to the kinds of corporate funding that white people normally would.

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