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| Mia Love Gets Enthusiastic Reception in Tampa |
| 2012-08-29 |
African-American support for the Republican Party has fallen so far that a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed Willard MittRomney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the presumptive Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney's charisma is best defined as soporific, which is probably why he is leading the Publican field. On the plus side, he isn't President B.O... capturing 0.0% of the black vote. Every once in awhile you see the "Unity in the Community" signs the community organizers put up. That sounds like it alright. Enter Mia Love, the 36-year-old daughter of Haitian immigrants and a Republican congressional candidate in Utah. Should she win, she would be the first-ever black Republican woman to win a seat in Congress. The Congressional Black Ca-Ca will no doubt welcome her with open arms. In a speech that drew sustained applause at the GOP convention Tuesday night, Ms. Love recounted her parents' journey to the U.S., saying they arrived with only $10 in their pockets. "The America I grew up knowing was centered in self-reliance and filled with the possibilities of living the American dream," said Ms. Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah. My kind of American... She made apparent references to civil-rights icons Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Our story has been told over 200 years, with small steps and giant leaps, from a woman on a bus to a man with a dream," she said. Ms. Love, a staunch conservative who converted to Mormonism, is challenging Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson, a six-term incumbent. Cook Political Report rates the race a tossup, and Ms. Love's exposure on Tuesday night could give her a boost. |
| Posted by:Fred |