Word: racial
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Back-to-back weeks of domination have left the Democrats in control of their destiny. It will take a slew of Obama errors, an outside event favoring McCain and an outsize racial-voting pattern for McCain to get back in contention...
Historically, this stuff has often worked, even against white candidates considered too solicitous of African-American concerns. And yet this year, with a black man actually running for President, the old recipe has been shelved. John McCain hasn't run ads on crime, welfare or racial preferences. At the gop convention, the subjects barely came...
...Obama's "lack of American roots" and "limited" connection to "basic American values and culture." Clinton, he advised, should add the tagline American to everything she did. Fox News and its friends spent most of the spring linking Obama to Jeremiah Wright and thus painting him as a closet racial militant. But in the general election, McCain has hewed closer to Penn's advice. One gop commercial touted the Arizona Senator as "the American President Americans have been waiting for," as if there were another kind. Over the summer, McCain unveiled a new slogan: "Country first." When Obama traveled abroad...
States are mandated to create majority-minority districts under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The legislation was enacted to ensure that minorities could exert real electoral influence and be represented by members of their racial or ethnic group...
...thoroughly enjoyed the visual likeness to the filmmaker, which seemed to me spot on. It wasn’t until I reprised the trailer with sound that I realized that it was a not-so-subtle conservative “spoof” on liberal ideas that featured racial, religious, and sexual stereotypes and unabated nationalistic symbolism.That viewing got me thinking about what went into conservative humor, who is considered its audience, and how it differs from a lefty approach to comedy.You probably know writer/director David Zucker best for making “Airplane...