President Obama reacted to the death of Trayvon Martin in deeply personal terms, and his ability to thread the needle on such a highly charged issue won him nearly universal approval — minus two people: Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. The candidates argued that by saying, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon,” Obama was injecting race into the situation to score political points.
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