Clinton's Careful Courtship of Muslim Voters

“They really cannot rely on Muslim voters,” says Dalia Mogahed, the director of research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and a former member of President Obama’s council on faith-based initiatives. “They may just stay home. There are third-party candidates, and for Muslims they’re very real possibilities. I don’t think anyone can take a Democratic vote from a Muslim for granted.”

In fact, the idea that Muslims would vote as a bloc is a relatively new one. The story of the last 15 years is a study in how external forces treating a group of people as similar can create actual political cohesion.

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