Washington, D.C.: As an Indian (from India) I've watched bits of the Democratic convention and have started watching snippets of the Republican convention. I am surprised by the homogenous color (shades of white) of the attendees at the the RNC compared to the Boston party which had a very wide range of people and skin colors. Is this really the case on the RNC convention floor? Or am I just seeing sections of the delegates on TV and in your photographs?
Robert G. Kaiser: No, this is a much whiter convention than the one in Boston. I looked up the statistic: about 6.4 percent of delegates here are African-American, and about that many are something else other than white. Whites are more than 80% of the total. The GOP is diversifying, but slowly.
"Point is, military records are not automatically excluded from question, especially if they are being loudly trumpeted as qualifications for office."
Questioning is one thing; ridicule is another.
I love Kerry's "loudly" trumpeting his military record. I'm sure it makes chicken hawks like Limbaugh squirm.
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Date: 2004-09-01 11:44 am (UTC)Washington, D.C.: As an Indian (from India) I've watched bits of the Democratic convention and have started watching snippets of the Republican convention. I am surprised by the homogenous color (shades of white) of the attendees at the the RNC compared to the Boston party which had a very wide range of people and skin colors.
Is this really the case on the RNC convention floor? Or am I just seeing sections of the delegates on TV and in your photographs?
Robert G. Kaiser: No, this is a much whiter convention than the one in Boston. I looked up the statistic: about 6.4 percent of delegates here are African-American, and about that many are something else other than white. Whites are more than 80% of the total. The GOP is diversifying, but slowly.
"Point is, military records are not automatically excluded from question, especially if they are being loudly trumpeted as qualifications for office."
Questioning is one thing; ridicule is another.
I love Kerry's "loudly" trumpeting his military record. I'm sure it makes chicken hawks like Limbaugh squirm.