Almost Half Dem Delegates Are Minorities

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- Minorities will be represented in record numbers among the delegates to this month's Democratic National Convention in Boston, convention organizers said Wednesday.

Nearly 40 percent of the more than 4,300 delegates are of a minority background, including record numbers of blacks, Asians, American Indians and Hispanics, the Democratic National Convention Committee said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-democratic-delegates,0,5190496.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[NMDemDist2]

1. at least one of our delegates is gay too

:) friend of mine :bounce:

nice for AZ, the bastion of Goldwater and McCain

[Wabbajack]

3. Wasn't Goldwater

kinda sympathetic to gay rights?

[NMDemDist2]

4. i believe he was, i think Goldwater was more libertarian than

republican

[Renew Deal]

6. So is McCain.

[Hekate]

12. AuH2O had a gay grandson -- kinship often helps to humanize "the other"

"Often" but not always, as witness Cheney and Gingrich, and their monumental hypocrisy.

Arizona must be doing something right if it produces conservatives like McCain and Goldwater -- honorable opponents, both of them.

Hekate

[Beetwasher]

2. I Love That!

That's so cool...

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. Let's take those stats for a spin

Headline says "Almost Half" then quotes "Nearly 40%". If you add up the percentages you get 37.2% (US population would be about 32%)

The subtext they are trying to sell is that minorities are over-represented, so they make a leap from 37.2% to "Almost Half".

So, just when did "Slightly over 1/3" become "Almost 1/2"?

[bleedingheart]

7. It's political math...

didn't you take it that in high school...

;-)

[mom cat]

9. It is less fuzzy than *'s math, by about 92.86% to be almost exact.

[KamaAina]

8. Typical corporate media spin

Translation: "The Democrat (sic) Party is controlled by those people! That's why good white 'Merkins like us vote Republican!"

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[AspenRose]

10. Yep

"So if the Democrats win, then THEY'LL take over! Do you want THAT for our pure, God-given nation? What would come of the future of this country?!?"

:eyes:

[BayCityProgressive]

11. What!?

McCain is NOT symathetic to gay rights, I dont know where people get this mccain is a liberal shit from...he just voted against the hate crimes bill to protect gays that like 70 senators supported.

[lostnfound]

15. Yep. So Newsday readers reconfirm 'that's NOT the party for me..'

I think that's the intention, don't you?

[PaDUer]

13. The delegates from here

are mostly the same people that have been going to the others..They have it tied up so no one else gets a chance.

[drmom]

14. I wonder what the minority percentage is at the Republican Convention?

Something tells me that it's not that high! Of course, it helps that all 12 (or is it 11 now?) of the non-white republicans sit right in front of the cameras. (That old trick fools me every time!)