Affirmative Action Ban in Michigan Is Rejected
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled, 8 to 7, on Thursday that Michigan’s voter-approved 2006 ban on affirmative action was unconstitutional.
Is the Voting Rights Act Doomed?
DOES the re-election of the first black president mean the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unnecessary and perhaps unconstitutional? The Supreme Court’s decision last week to consider a constitutional challenge to a key section of the act suggests that a perverse outcome of the 2012 campaign may be that President Obama’s victory spells doom
Romney attributes loss to ‘gifts’ Obama gave minorities
The former nominee says in a phone call to donors that the president gave ‘a lot of stuff’ to African Americans, Latinos and young people during his first term in order to secure their votes.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-romney-donors-20121115,0,1719033.story
Romney Blames Loss on Obama’s ‘Gifts’ to Minorities and Young Voters
Saying that he and his team still felt “troubled” by his loss to President Obama, Mitt Romney on Wednesday attributed his defeat in part to what he called big policy “gifts” that the president had bestowed on loyal Democratic constituencies, including young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics.
Read more in The New York Times: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/romney-blames-loss-on-obamas-gifts-to-minorities-and-young-voters/?hp
Irregularities Cast Pall Over Arpaio Election Win
PHOENIX – After moving to the Phoenix area, the Bustamante family made sure to reregister under their new Maricopa County address. Mom registered as a libertarian, dad as a democrat and the couple’s 18-year-old son as an independent.
Come Election Day, the family found their experiences at the polling booth were as divergent as their political
Another College Reports Racially Tinged Disturbance After Obama’s Win
The incident took place at Hampden-Sydney College, a private institution in Virginia that is one of the few remaining all-male colleges in the United States.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Eduction: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/another-college-reports-racially-tinged-disturbance-after-obamas-win?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Ole Miss Chancellor Condemns Angry Student Protest of Obama’s Re-election
Daniel W. Jones, chancellor of the University of Mississippi, said on Wednesday that university officials were “very disappointed” in the actions of some students who apparently used racial epithets during a protest of President Obama’s re-election Tuesday night on the Oxford campus.
Read more in The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/ole-miss-chancellor-condemns-angry-student-protest-of-obamas-re-election/51588?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Senate Races Expose Extent of Republicans’ Gender Gap
Republicans, hoping to gain seats in the Senate, knew that their limited appeal among minorities would be a problem, as would party infighting. But they did not expect to be derailed by the definition of rape.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/womens-issues-were-a-problem-for-gop.html?hp
Demographic Shift Brings New Worry for Republicans
A couple of decades ago, Prince William County was one of the mostly white, somewhat rural, far-flung suburbs where Republican candidates went to accumulate the votes to win elections in Virginia.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/obamas-victory-presents-gop-with-demographic-test.html?hp&_r=0
No longer your father’s electorate
WASHINGTON — Even more than the election that made Barack Obama the first black president, the one that returned him to office sent an unmistakable signal that the hegemony of the straight white male in America is over.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-analysis-20121108,0,7644829.story