Southern Political Report
- After the 2010 elections, the absolute number of black state legislators remained about the same in Southern states, but their power was sharply reduced. For the first time in the post-civil rights era, a majority of black legislators in the South will serve as members of the minority party. Since 98 percent [...]
Democratic Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia is saying his party’s November election losses were partly due to voter antagonism toward a black president.
Moran, a 20-year House veteran, made the remarks Tuesday to the Arab television network Alhurra (ahl-HUR’-ruh) after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
Referring to widespread Republican wins in congressional and state [...]
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
- After the Democrats and the Obama administration took a historic beating in the mid-term elections the President left on a 10-day trip to Asia. The President hoped to complete a trade pact with South Korea, convince China to work towards a trade friendly monetary policy, and get the G20 countries [...]
New America Media
- When President Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, he received over 95 percent of the African American vote in addition to a large percentage of young voters, newly-registered voters, and many who had been disgusted with politics in general. He energized the masses, the grassroots, and they supported him, and of [...]
Republicans don’t just control much of the electoral map. In some cases, they now have the power to redraw it.
Overwhelming victories in statehouses and governors’ races across the country this week have placed the GOP in command of redrawing both congressional and legislative districts to conform with Census results. It’s a grueling and politically charged [...]
