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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

Women, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians vote Democratic. / Whites and men vote Republican.

Those making $50K or less vote Democratic; those making more than $50K vote Republican.

The Republican House: 89 percent of House Republicans are white men; 19 house members are female and 0 (zero) house members are black.

The Democratic House: includes 61 women, 43 African-Americans and six LGBT members

The Senate is 96% white. There are 20 women senators: 16 Democrats and 4 Republicans.

White voters turn out in larger numbers for the mid term elections according to the Washington post.

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In 1950, 98 percent of House Democrats and 97 percent of House Republicans were white men. In the 64 years since, that share has fallen 51 points for Democrats, but only 8 points for Republicans. Today, all but one of 20 GOP committee chairs in the House are white men (Rep. Candice Miller, who chairs the House Committee on Administration, is the exception). http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/after-the-midterms-the-diversity-gap-in-the-house-will-be-wider-than-ever/

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

The Republican House: 89 percent of House Republicans are white men; 19 house members are female and 0 (zero) house members are black.

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy


It's straight facts. The Ferguson Police Department is more racially diverse than than the GOP Congress.

It's hard to see how broader America will ever vote a Republican Candidate into the White House, especially when that candidate will have to pander to the right-wing base.

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy


It's straight facts. The Ferguson Police Department is more racially diverse than than the GOP Congress.

It's hard to see how broader America will ever vote a Republican Candidate into the White House, especially when that candidate will have to pander to the right-wing base.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

Women, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians vote Democratic. / Whites and men vote Republican.

Those making $50K or less vote Democratic; those making more than $50K vote Republican.

The Republican House: 89 percent of House Republicans are white men; 19 house members are female and 0 (zero) house members are black.

The Democratic House: includes 61 women, 43 African-Americans and six LGBT members

The Senate is 96% white. There are 20 women senators: 16 Democrats and 4 Republicans.

White voters turn out in larger numbers for the mid term elections according to the Washington post.

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In 1950, 98 percent of House Democrats and 97 percent of House Republicans were white men. In the 64 years since, that share has fallen 51 points for Democrats, but only 8 points for Republicans. Today, all but one of 20 GOP committee chairs in the House are white men (Rep. Candice Miller, who chairs the House Committee on Administration, is the exception). http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/after-the-midterms-the-diversity-gap-in-the-house-will-be-wider-than-ever/

Must be a lot of people making over 50k.
The Republicans gained a couple of women senators and a couple of black Senators this time.
And they got their first black female member of the House.
With blacks voting 80-90% Dem you won't have that many running as Reps which makes it hard to get black Reps to run, let alone get elected.
The black who reached the highest position in the House was J C Watts, who was Rep whip in the 90's.
Your source was clearly wrong, and I am surprised that after the election, when you could be expected to know this you still posted them.
BTW you have your first Rep governor in a very long time.

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

Women, Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians vote Democratic. / Whites and men vote Republican.

Those making $50K or less vote Democratic; those making more than $50K vote Republican.

The Republican House: 89 percent of House Republicans are white men; 19 house members are female and 0 (zero) house members are black.

The Democratic House: includes 61 women, 43 African-Americans and six LGBT members

The Senate is 96% white. There are 20 women senators: 16 Democrats and 4 Republicans.

White voters turn out in larger numbers for the mid term elections according to the Washington post.

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In 1950, 98 percent of House Democrats and 97 percent of House Republicans were white men. In the 64 years since, that share has fallen 51 points for Democrats, but only 8 points for Republicans. Today, all but one of 20 GOP committee chairs in the House are white men (Rep. Candice Miller, who chairs the House Committee on Administration, is the exception). http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/after-the-midterms-the-diversity-gap-in-the-house-will-be-wider-than-ever/

Must be a lot of people making over 50k.
The Republicans gained a couple of women senators and a couple of black Senators this time.
And they got their first black female member of the House.
With blacks voting 80-90% Dem you won't have that many running as Reps which makes it hard to get black Reps to run, let alone get elected.
The black who reached the highest position in the House was J C Watts, who was Rep whip in the 90's.
Your source was clearly wrong, and I am surprised that after the election, when you could be expected to know this you still posted them.
BTW you have your first Rep governor in a very long time.

Maybe they just do not want to be called "Uncle Toms".

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy


There's nothing to "choke on" but facts. You got a small tent.

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

It is not my responsibility as a white man over 60 making over 50K to vote for a black man or woman simply because of the percent of blacks in the general population. Just as it is not a black man's responsibility to vote for a Hispanic or Asian because of their percent of population.

All our responsibilities should be only to vote for who the hell we please... is that not the way and reason for a democracy?

Butch

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy


It's straight facts. The Ferguson Police Department is more racially diverse than than the GOP Congress.

It's hard to see how broader America will ever vote a Republican Candidate into the White House, especially when that candidate will have to pander to the right-wing base.

Keep telling yourself that

This map was from an election we LOST btw

[image]http://i1131.photobucket.com/albums/m542/swolf318/Political%20Geography/UnitedStatesPresidentialElection2012byCongressionalDistrict_zps99a6f76a.png[/image]

Heres to hoping you choke on your own race-baiting rhetoric

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

You do realize that if a person understands what they are actually looking at on that map it proves cloudboy's point don't you?

To explain it to you since you clearly don't, the areas Democrats won represent the highest population density areas of the US so by the simple facts of large numbers it is a fact that those areas will be more diverse than the red areas. That fact is backed up by enormous amounts of demographic research so you can whine all you want.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

It is not my responsibility as a white man over 60 making over 50K to vote for a black man or woman simply because of the percent of blacks in the general population. Just as it is not a black man's responsibility to vote for a Hispanic or Asian because of their percent of population.

All our responsibilities should be only to vote for who the hell we please... is that not the way and reason for a democracy?

Butch

Not if you are Cloudboy.
A few years ago the Dems (who had total control of the state legislature) gerryamandered a district to assure that Alabama would always have a Black Representative in the (Federal) House of Representatives. The result was a district that had a 60 mile corridor that was only about 10 miles wide.
The second result was that in order to do this they had to move heavily Dem areas into the district. This resulted in them having one less seat than they had before. I wish all gerrymandering worked out as well.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

No, what it says is what it always says. Midterms are half the turnout of Prez elections.