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A Kansas Republican Congresswoman says the GOP revival is waiting for its "great white hope."

"Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope," Jenkins said to the crowd. "I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington."

Frankly, I don't think she meant it that badly, "white" as opposed to Obama, but the modern etymology of the phrase usually traces to finding a white heavyweight boxer to claim the title from black boxers.

So it has a racial association in origin even if she wasn't intentionally being directly racist.