Word: elected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "[The court decision was] extremely disappointing...Voters in Florida have had to wait 127 years to elect an African American to Congress...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "In November we're going to send Newt Gingrich back to Georgia and elect a new Democratic Congress...
When Massachusetts voters go to the polls on Tuesday to elect their next United States Senator, they will not be suffering from a lack of information...
...percent of all Americans. The House is a much more representative body than the Senate, with over 25 black members; but the obvious reason for this (which also explains why the Senate is a better gauge of the country's sentiment), is that it takes an entire state to elect a senator and only a district to elect a Congressperson. Accordingly, the majority of black people in Congress come from predominantly black districts. The dearth of black people in the Senate does not necessarily demonstrate racism on the part of voters; it could also indicate an underrepresentation of blacks...
This statistic seems to violate the theory that Americans will only elect their own kind. What's going on? Simply, the Senate is not the presidency. A primarily Republican state like California (led by Republican Governor Pete Wilson) that has voted against such things as public benefits for immigrants and has eliminated affirmative action from its state university system, has somehow defied all odds and elected two Jewish women to be its senators. Does this indicate that California would do the same for the presidency? No. For the same reason black representation in the House is not a good indicator...