Will the "good white folks" of the sovereign state of Tennessee vote a black man as U. S. Senator?
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Ford was doing well in the polls but corker is catching up....
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I don't think so. Like it or not, there are still a lot of elderly people that are traditionalist and don't want a woman in the presidency. And factually, elderly folks vote more than any other group. Also, many southern voters still have the traditional values as well. I think it would wise for the dems to think twice before they put themself down in two huge voting groups like that. \nOf course if the repubs nominate condi.. then hey.. they vote swings back to the white lady for those tradionalist.\nI'm not saying I like it, but I think that these sexist and racist elements exist and could have a factor on the vote.
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Here in Tennessee, we're pretty big!  Almost as big as our football!  Go Vols!\n\nI'm pretty sure that ad didn't have a thing to do with it.  The rest of the country is sure gullible if they vote based on tv ads!\n\nEDIT:  I doubt anyone will think of us as redneck and racist who didn't already!  Ironically, no one seemed to get the point about the Playboy Club.  Would it have been less racist to use a black woman?  Confusing...
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Hiram Revels\nSenator from Mississippi; first African American senator
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Actually no,Congressman Jim Moran from Kansas got democratic and republican votes.He is a conservative republican and very well liked,he is a great down to earth man.
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Tennessee's great!  I'm from Missouri and most people with provincial attitudes think the same things about Tennessee and Missouri.  But Tennessee has Nashville, Memphis, Gatlinburg, Johnson City and ... JACK DANIELS baby!!  (Don't forget Dave Ramsey, too!)
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Of course the same issues will arise. They don't respect the United States as a sovereign country. They feel they should be able to just walk around doing what they please on our soil because they hate whites.
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I certainly hope that Blacks come out to vote in record numbers against the rethuglican party especially since they didnt sign the Voting Rights Act.  I certainly hope that the Mexican immigrants remember just who was disenfranchised here in Texas when the state was redistricted watering down their vote.  I certainly hope that they also remember who wants the wall up on the border.  I certainly hope that they both remember that No Child Left Behind was never funded and that Bush paid an Uncle Tom Water Carrying Black man to sell NCLB to blacks as a reason they should support him in the 2004 election.  I certainly hope that Blacks remember Katrina and the fact that those people are still without homes, jobs and there are still missing people.  I certainly hope that Blacks remember that Louisiana has had Homeland Security funding cut.  I certainly hope that Blacks and Mexicans remember that the Armed Forces regularly recruit their children talking them into believing that the only choice they  have is to go into the military and wind up among the dead and injured for life by fighting his bloody senseless war in Iraq.  I certainly hope that Blacks and Mexicans remember that since they are at the bottom of the pay scale that it was the rethuglicans that refuse to raise the mimimum wage but are more than eager to give tax cuts to people as useless as Paris Hilton and Barbara and Jenna Bush.  I certainly hope that they remember that while a lot of Blacks and Mexicans may be Christians and homophobic that discriminating against homosexuals and voting against same sex marriage doesnt further the agenda of Blacks or Mexicans but the agenda of the neo-con religious right who couldnt care less about them.  I certainly hope that Blacks and Mexicans remember that the religious right of the rethuglican party came into your churches to con you out of your vote.  I certainly hope that Blacks and Mexicans remember that the bulk of the working poor that have no healthcare are Black and Mexican and that those who have the power to change this refuse to while enjoying the best of healthcare at their expense.  I certainly hope that both Blacks and Mexicans remember that voting against abortion will not stop abortion and that you have already been tricked out of your vote for this in the past while abortion is still legal.  The rethugs could not care less if Blacks or Mexicans get abortions, they dont want to become the minority here.  I certainly hope that Blacks and Mexicans remember that the death penalty is still used to kill larger numbers of Blacks and Mexicans even when whites have committed the same crimes.  I certainly hope that Blacks and Mexicans remember that they have more in common and that the efforts of the rethugs to divide and conquer can't work if we stick together.  I certainly hope that Blacks and Mexicans remember Martin Luther King Jr, Adam Clayton Powell, Medgar Evers, Robert F. Kennedy, Caesar Chavez, Rosa Parks and Emmett Till when the 2006 and 2008 elections come and why those people were all Democrats. Until we get what those people fought for peacefully and died for...we have yet to be heard.
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I BELIEVE WE STILL LIVE IN A TIME WHERE WE WILL NOT SEE A WOMAN PRESIDENT AS SAD AS IT IS...BUT EVEN WITH COLIN POWELL'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS OUR COUNTRY WILL NOT VOTE A BLACK MAN IN EITHER.  SAD STATE OUR COUNTRY IS IN.  THEY WILL PROBABLY VOTE A WHITE MAN RIGHT WING REP.  SAD BUT TRUE...AND SINCE IT SEEMS POINTLESS TO VOTE BECAUSE I HONESTLY DON'T BELIEVE GEORGE BUSH EVER WON ANY ELECTION...I GUESS IT WILL BE WHOEVER THE GOVERNMENT DECIDES ON .....
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The answer to the question I think you were looking for is no, Americans would not vote a black president in no mattter how good he is or what his credentials are.  But then they want to believe they aren't racists.  I guarantee you that Tim McVeigh has a greater chance at being president than ANY black person.  David Duke almost was elected governor, he is a self admitted racists and former Grand Wizard of the KKK.  He has never changed his tune, even while campaining.
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Yes!\n\nAnd honestly, I think it will happen in the fairly near future.  And I am sure that if they choose a candidate with a few brain cells, rather than some joke like Jesse Jackson, it would be a positive step for America as we are all from different nationalities in the melting pot of America.  \n\nBy the way, it was but a century and a half ago that the Norwegians and the Swedes wouldn't go to the same church, but rather, they built seperate churches, sometimes less than a mile apart.\n\nHonestly, the racism in America comes more and more from the minorities and less and less from the Europeans.  Hate breeds hate.  The cycle has got to stop.
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He's going to move to nebraska and be the next Miss America. Those legs....mmmm. Of course Fiengold will get the support he needs to become a transvestite. HE WILL BE ELECTED Miss USA
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Democrat with a Redneck Twist of course
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What country is T.N.?  Do you mean TN the state (Tennessee)?  It's difficult to give an opinion if I don't know what country you're talking about.
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I am a Republican white male over 30, and I would vote for a woman, no matter what the race, if she is the best for the country.  I hope the Condi runs, so incredibly smart and talented!  I pray that American gets past it's bigotry and can be color and gender neutral, someday...
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I'll vote for anyone who is willing to stand up for the constitution, find alternative fuel resources, is honest when addressing people, and actually cares for the American citizen!
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J.C. Watts was the last one elected, remember.But, how many black republicans running for congressional office do you see? Blacks are statring to ebb away from the democratic party slowly, but they have to endure cultural pressure everytime they think outside of the democratic box. They get called things like "uncle tom" and "traitor" because they have a different political philosophy. To me that is not only a shame for the black culutre, but it hurts diveristy of thought. \n\nAnd the funny thing is that most blacks are conservative and are more inline with Republican values. Everything from the sanctity of marriage to school votures. On more issues then not, the black culture can be found in agreement with conservatives. \n\n But placing color (and gender) aside, we should NEVER vote for people based on their skin color. As a great man once said, we shouldn't judge people by the color of their skin, but on the content of their character. Is that so bad, or is King wrong? Republicans have voted for black people, they have held offices in the senate and in congress, and they have held some of the offices in the white house (Rice and Powell). Making such uneducated statements about half the country only makes you a bigot (and PLEASE look up the definition of the word bigot, it may change your life).\n\n\nGodspeed