“If we don't invest in educating and training African-American kids, immigrants and Latino kids, we won't have a middle class,'' said Mark Sawyer, the director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles. ``We'll have a very, very poor disposable class that's largely black or brown.”
Duck's Links
- Hispanic Voters Divided by Religion
Interesting take on this electorate. - Obama Reaches Out to Smaller Latino Communities
Check out this "Washington Post" article on some of the ads that we (Balsera Communications) have been doing for the Obama campaign - Karl Rove Calls Foul on McCain Ads
Is this just an underhanded way on Rove's part to reign in the out-of-control McCain campaign? - Lies, Half-Truths and Contradictions:
The Republican playbook is in full effect: Lie your way to the White House. - Democrats gain edge in Florida Hispanics
The shifting tide of the Hispanic electorate does not bode well long term for Republicans, especially as Hispanics emerge as the new majority minority in the U.S. - WSJ Article on Majority Minority U.S. by 2042
Duck Pond Videos
- Duck's Comments from Invesco Field
Just me trying to take it all in right before Obama's acceptance speech - Video - Rednecks for Obama
Check out this great find from the Democratic Convention in Denver. A lively pair of self proclaimed rednecks from the Ozarks proudly display their Obama pride. There is no way we can lose . . .
Notable Quoatables
- Barbies for WarIn a 9/16/08 Op-Ed, Mauren Dowd of the NYT, quoted R. D. Levno, a retired school principal, from Fairbanks on her take of Sarah Palin. “She’s a child, inexperienced and simplistic,” she said of Sarah. “It’s taking us back to junior high school. She’s one of the popular girls, but one of the mean girls. She is seductive, but she is invented.”
- Rove calls Foul on McCain"McCain has gone in some of his ads -- similarly gone one step too far," Rove told told Fox News, "and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the '100 percent truth' test."
- Sneak Preview -- America c. 2040“If we don't invest in educating and training African-American kids, immigrants and Latino kids, we won't have a middle class,'' said Mark Sawyer, the director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles. ``We'll have a very, very poor disposable class that's largely black or brown."
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