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Two interesting statistics I found while while looking for statistics on the religious and racial makeup of political parties . . .
Something around 25 percent of gays and lesbians voted for Bush in the recent election . . . but something like 25 percent of evangelical Christians voted for Kerry. Something strikes me as being very off about both fo those statistics (not that I don't believe they're true -- just that this once again proves that politics will never make any sense to me).
Anyway . . . let's assume we are to debate this topic further. Are we looking at party leaders or are we looking at party makeup as a whole? I think it's hilarious when people think that Condi and Colin (and now Barack Obama) prove that their political party is diverse, and furthermore, that that diversity leads to sensitivity and concern regarding race issues. Let's be reasonable here. That said, I think that issues surrounding race will continue to be ignored until we have a person of color as president, and ditto for religious issues and a non-Christian. (Religion is a trickier issue to pinpoint than race because it's less obvious, but did you realize that we have never had a president who wasn't, at least in name, Christian? And that only one of these was non-Protestant? [Kennedy.]) So clearly the leadership of the party is still important. So where does that put our Colins and Condis and Baracks? Tokens or truly important to the cause, or both?
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