Obama's Grandmother On Hillary's Chances For Beating Barack

Obama's Grandmother On Hillary's Chances For Beating Barack

At the end of a dusty, dirt road lined with mango and mimosa trees, Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives sat outside on plastic chairs surrounded by chickens and drying corn kernels, listening to radio reports from New Hampshire.

Kogelo, the western Kenyan home village of Barack Obama's father, has been spared the political and ethnic violence that has erupted elsewhere in this country following a disputed presidential election. But it was just 90 minutes' drive from a town where torched, ransacked and looted buildings bear testimony to the clashes, and the turmoil in Kenya, as well as his nephew's success in the U.S., was on Said Obama's mind.

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Watch CNN video of Obama's Kenyan grandmother discussing Barack's chances for winning and what she thinks about Hillary:

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