The United States is 68% white.

[elfs]

The United States is 68% white, 15% hispanic, 12% black and 5% Asian, which explains why this montage of all the photos in the Republican press release on their new "Pledge to America" document, their new version of the "Contract with America" and roundly panned here and here, shows a raftload of paleskins and damned little else.

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[sirfox.livejournal.com]

I counted three ethnic minorities, but two of them were in advertisements in the sidebar.

[tagryn]

And an overabundance of horses, but heck, why not?

Until either party is willing to get serious about reining in entitlement and DoD spending, talk about deficit reduction is just nibbling at the edges. And neither party is willing to tackle that, because we as a people aren't willing to tackle that, at least not yet. Everybody knows that either party that takes up the Medicare or Social Security reform mantle will get slaughtered at the polls by the AARP constituency, or portrayed as anti-patriotic if they try to touch defense spending (though Gates' proposals are a promising start).

Obama without the recession maybe could have taken some of that on, he had that level of popularity after the election, but the economic problems have sucked away most of his political capital trying to deal with all of those. After the November election & the bipartisan panel on spending's report release, he could double-down with the GOP and say "OK, you want real deficit reduction? Then you take the responsibility on expiring the Bush tax cuts and doing real DoD cuts, and I'll take the responsibility on meaningful reform of entitlements." Stranger deals have happened between the parties.

[darrelx.livejournal.com]

Whenever I see anecdotal evidence presented to "confirm" racism, I can only think of two things:

1) Ingnorance of how statistical analysis works.

"Dewey Defeats Truman" is a classic example of failure on this note.

2) How selective is the "evidence"?

That montage fit pretty tightly... you don't think any of the images were cropped to hide what dailykos didn't want you to see?

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

1. The GOP's racial makeup has been well documented in dozens of different polls, and you know it.

2. Link to the original PDF from the GOP's own web page:

http://www.gop.gov/resources/library/documents/solutions/a-pledge-to-america.pdf

Nothing was edited. Maybe your idea that Markos Molitzas has to modify things to make a point is a bit of transference?