GOP strategy to re-take Congress: ‘A heaping plate of soul’
President Obama has helped inspire an historic batch of black Americans to run for Congress - against his own party...
President Barack Obama has helped inspire an historic batch of black Americans to run for Congress – against his own party.
32 black Republicans, a record-high number, are now running for the US House of Representatives, as reported in Alternet.
The Root calls the milestone a “heaping plate of soul.”
The South and West, the nation’s most diverse regions, field the majority of these candidates: 13 (40 percent) are running in the South and 6 (19 percent) in the West.
Politically speaking, the group is running in a hodge-podge of districts: Twenty (63 percent) are running in districts that lean slightly or strongly Democratic, while 11 (34 percent) are running in districts that lean slightly or strongly Republican. More, the 32 black candidates are running in districts that vary in racial composition: 17 are in majority-white districts, while 15 are majority-minority districts.
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