Georgia Primary and Kerry's Africanness

[minionofmidas]

The first map is the Georgia primary result, Kerry in red, Edwards in green.
The second map is the percentage Black in Georgia, over 30% green, under 30% pale.
Look similar?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yes I had.

Reason #1 for picking Edwards a running mate

[Ben.]

 
Surprising I'd have thought Edwards would be leading amongst Blacks especially in GA... this is good i have been worried about how firm Kerry's support is amongst minorities... but this and other events is reassuring me that the Democratic leaning minorities are energised we'll sure need them come November... but i do worry about Bush's inroads into Hispanic voters...but that seems to be a "bush policy" rather than a "republican policy"  

[angus]

I made exactly the same observation under Dave Liep's Georgia Primary post.  Nice to know that when a Republican makes this observation, nobody gives a sheet.  If all dems are as slow as this crowd is to draw such obvious conclusions, I think the GOP will do just fine.

[Ben.]

hey! did you call us slow with short atten.... ahhh look at the puppy...

[angus]

Sorry Ben.  My analyst says I'm sarcastic and impatient.  I'm working on that.  I think I understand your point about minorities and I agree with it.  I am just a little frustrated that both parties are so blatantly patronizing toward them, like they're less "american" or something.  Oh, I suppose it's better than suppressing them, like the French do.  

[Ben.]

Don't worry about it man...and by the way your talking to a dedicated Francophobe...doesn’t stop me from being an ok French speaker like the language the country and the people get on nerves though... that just sounds really intolerant...oh well  

[zachman]

African-Americans, especially in the South are more partisan democrats, hence they vote for Kerry.

[Gustaf]

Don't worry about it man...and by the way your talking to a dedicated Francophobe...doesn’t stop me from being an ok French speaker like the language the country and the people get on nerves though... that just sounds really intolerant...oh well  

I hear you my friend, even though my French isn't htat good yet...

[Ben.]

Ah bien bon à ici il mon ami…

that’s about as far as my mastery of the Gallic tongue stretches….but then again your mastery of English is very very impressive…  

[Gustaf]

Don't worry about it man...and by the way your talking to a dedicated Francophobe...doesn’t stop me from being an ok French speaker like the language the country and the people get on nerves though... that just sounds really intolerant...oh well  

Ah bien bon à ici il mon ami…that’s about as far as my mastery of the Gallic tongue stretches….but then again your mastery of English is very very impressive…  


Ah bien bon à ici il mon ami…


that’s about as far as my mastery of the Gallic tongue stretches….but then again your mastery of English is very very impressive…  


I hear you my friend, even though my French isn't htat good yet...

Did you repeat your French sentence to give it more weight? Thanks, one has to know at least one foreign language fairly well if one's native tounge is spoken by less than 10 million people...

[Ben.]

sorry man didn’t mean to repeat it....well act...nahh not really...but i suppose in Sweden your taught English or another langue from a very early age?

[angus]

Ah bien bon à ici il mon ami

realpolitik if you don't get out here and correct that grammar, I will.  I swear it's driving me nuts.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

[minionofmidas]

I can't attempt to correct that as it reads so strange and un-French I can't figure out what it means...
I didn't see yr post, Angus, things in this terrible part of the Forum get washed away so quickly...
Did you also post a map?

[angus]

no.  sorry.  Your post was spot on target, Lewis.

As an aside, this is one potential problem with the GOP.  That everyone is a demographic, rather than an individual.

[Gustaf]

sorry man didn’t mean to repeat it....well act...nahh not really...but i suppose in Sweden your taught English or another langue from a very early age?

I started taking English at the age of 9, French and Latin when I was 12 and German this year. Apart from the Latin and German, this is how it is for most students in Sweden.

[nclib]

One positive about having Kerry be the nominee instead of Dean is that there will likely be a higher minority turnout.

[© tweed]

Kerry could approach 93% of the black vote.