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  • September 2008

    • GOP Throws a Very White Party

      Washington Post  |  Sep 4, 08 10:13 AM CDT

      GOP Throws a Very White Party

      (Newser) - Scan the faces in the Xcel Energy Center, and you’ll see a sea of white. This year’s Republican National Convention is the whitest on record, the Washington Post reports, with just 36 black delegates —out of 2,380. “It’s hard to look around and not get frustrated,” says Michael Steele, former lieutenant governor of Maryland and the convention's only black primetime speaker. More »

  • July 2008

    • Housing Bill Funds Democratic Ally

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 31, 08 9:36 AM CDT

      Housing Bill Funds Democratic Ally

      (Newser) - Nestled in the housing bill President Bush signed yesterday is an acronym Republicans don’t like one bit: ACORN. The Wall Street Journal reports that the group is among the many housing-related nonprofits the bill hands cash to, but Republicans grumble that it does more than housing. It’s also co-managing a $15.9 million voter registration campaign aimed at low-income Hispanics and African Americans–in other words, likely Democratic voters. More »

    • Obama Looks to Tip Scales by Boosting Black Vote

      Washington Post  |  Jul 28, 08 3:54 PM CDT

      Obama Looks to Tip Scales by Boosting Black Vote

      (Newser) - The Obama campaign’s national voter-registration effort has deployed 3,000 volunteers, with one major focus on expanding the African-American voter base dramatically. One volunteer hits the sweltering streets of Macon, Ga., with the Washington Post in tow. "You see how mentally shackled and jaded people are, because they've seen politicians let them down in the past," she observes. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Florida  • Georgia  • Ohio  • Nevada  • voter registration  • black voters

    • Judaism's Black Converts Growing Part of US Mosaic

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Jul 17, 08 8:55 PM CDT

      Judaism's Black Converts Growing Part of US Mosaic

      (Newser) - The number of African-Americans converting to Judaism is growing, the Christian Science Monitor reports, at a time when Democrat Barack Obama is seeking to renew what was once a strong alliance between the groups. Politics, though, plays a small role; "Obama's candidacy, African-Americans choosing to be Jews ... is all part of the great American story of freedom and choice," one observer says. More »

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      Barack Obama  • election 2008  • religion  • Jews  • presidential politics  • black voters  • conversion

    • What Jackson Problem? Waning Clout Signals Shift

      New York Times  |  Jul 11, 08 7:48 AM CDT

      What Jackson Problem? Waning Clout Signals Shift

      (Newser) - Once, Democrats worried about “the Jesse Jackson problem,” the fear that rebuke from Jackson would cost them black voters. But now, some Democrats are saying that Jackson’s latest criticisms of Barack Obama may actually help the Illinois senator, the New York Times reports, both with white voters still worried that Obama’s too extreme, and black voters who think Jackson’s an outmoded figure. More »

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      Barack Obama  • race relations  • Jesse Jackson  • black voters  • black culture

    • Even Obama Can't Whistle Through Dixie

      New York Times  |  Jul 1, 08 8:04 AM CDT

      Even Obama Can't Whistle Through Dixie

      (Newser) - Barack Obama is running a 50-state campaign, and some of his more breathless supporters have talked up the candidate as the first Democrat to win the South in decades. Not so fast, writes Thomas F. Schaller. As the political scientist explains in a New York Times op-ed, the Obaman dream of retaking the South rests upon false assumptions about race and voting patterns. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Obama 2008  • Georgia  • race  • North Carolina  • Virginia  • black voters  • South

  • June 2008

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