{"id":3808,"date":"2007-11-01T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/01\/racial-diversity-in-presidential-campaign-staffs\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T14:28:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:47:55","slug":"racial-diversity-in-presidential-campaign-staffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3808","title":{"rendered":"Racial Diversity in Presidential Campaign Staffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/04\/gender-ratios-of-presidential-campaign-staffs\/\">Gender Ratios of Presidential Campaign Staffs<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Via the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/phoenixwoman.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/15\/which-presidential-campaigns-are-the-worst-for-diversity\/\">Mercury Rising<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/racial_diversity_in_staffs.jpg' alt='Racial diversity in presidential campaign staff, 2008' \/><\/p>\n<p>Some scattered thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>1) Wish they had covered Dodd, who I am leaning towards favoring at the moment, due to his leadership in regards to FISA. (<strong><em>UPDATE<\/em><\/strong>: But having <a href=\"http:\/\/ezraklein.typepad.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/hillary-and-dri.html\">watched this clip<\/a>, I&#8217;m now officially off the Dodd train.)<\/p>\n<p>2) It&#8217;s not a surprise that the candidate who is Black has the greatest percentage of Black staffers, and that the candidate who is Latino has the greatest percentage of Latin@ staffers. It&#8217;s interesting, however, that Clinton has far and away the most Asian staffers. I have no idea what&#8217;s behind that; possibly it&#8217;s a secondary effect of a geographic difference?<\/p>\n<p>3) Wow, are American Indians shut out of participation at this level.<\/p>\n<p>4) Once again, Giuliani manages to be worse than other Republicans. (Speaking of Giuliani suckage, read this <a href=\"http:\/\/theangryblackwoman.wordpress.com\/2007\/10\/22\/political-monday-giuliani-and-the-race-race\/\">excellent post about Giuliani&#8217;s use of racism in his campaign for mayor<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>5) I&#8217;ve generally been anti-Clinton in this race, and I still am; she&#8217;s the most pro-war of the Democratic candidates, and that&#8217;s a deficit that nothing else overcomes, for me. But she&#8217;s the only one who can claim to have a staff that&#8217;s mostly people of color.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to use this thread for general discussion of the presidential race, as well as discussion of the above graphic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(See also: Gender Ratios of Presidential Campaign Staffs.) Via the blog Mercury Rising: Some scattered thoughts: 1) Wish they had covered Dodd, who I am leaning towards favoring at the moment, due to his leadership in regards to FISA. (UPDATE: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}