He was then eight months from winning 43 percent of the white vote — two points more than John Kerry won four years earlier. Obama carried three states — three more than Kerry — of the Confederacy (Florida, Virginia and North Carolina). In states outside the South, Obama received substantially more white votes than any Democratic candidate since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 — more than Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton or Al Gore. This is part of the "racial stalemate" in which Mississippi has more black elected officials — not more relative to population; more — than any other state.
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Go Mia, you are a breath of fresh air on the political scene.
George Will, as usual, is totally wrong. At least, with this article, I got a good laugh to start the day.
"On her father's wages as a janitor and a factory worker and her mother's as a housekeeper, she got through the University of Hartford."
No, those federally subsidized and guaranteed student loans that she took out More..