Wilder raises doubts about Obama in battleground Virginia

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Former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder, America’s first elected black governor, has his own reservations about America’s first black president, Barack Obama.

Wilder, an emphatic Obama supporter in 2008, said his fellow Democrat should have focused more on creating jobs during his first term and faulted the president for failing to keep his campaign promise to bridge the partisan gap in Washington.

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