----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 5:22 PM Subject: Re: Colin Powell President
> > Well, that's been falsified experimentally just this year in Texas. I dont think that one election race constitutes falsification. While I will agree that there is some truth to what you say about the electability of blacks it is not a universal truth. Blacks have not had all that hard a time getting elected in Texas, especially since the days of Barbara Jordan. Several black elected officials in and from Texas have been quite prominent. > Ron > Kirk, who was a black moderate Democrat, got a record low % of white votes > in Harris county for a senate election, running against a fairly obscure > Republican candidate. Both were fairly unknown. And then there was the election campaign that must have had some effect. Isnt it possible that the republican candidate just rode the republican wave into office? > > In other words, he got fewer white votes than did a Democrat who was far to > the left of him running against well known and incumbent US Senators. Not sure who you are refering to here. > > Being black is a net negative. How else can you explain the low numbers of > blacks in the Senate? > Perhaps blacks have produced fewer good candidates so far? Not many people would vote for Jesse Jackson based on his message. xponent Votes For Blacks Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
