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Elections �06: Identities Politics

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DATE : Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:00:00 +0500
Entered in Database : 2006-10-23 14:00:00
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Due to studio availability, this show will record at 5:00 pm ET For the last month we've been focusing one show each week on an individual house district or a full state-wide senate race as a way to create, in aggregate, a sort of pointillist political portrait of the country. We'll be continuing this series on Tuesday when we focus on the Missouri senate race, but first we're hoping to spend an hour talking about the future of ethnic, racial, and identity politics. This was suggested, in a roundabout way, by a number of disparate threads, including white Tennessee's response to Harold Ford Jr. as described by John Jay Hooker and the rise of the African-American gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick here in Massachusetts, who won the Democratic primary over, among others, an Irish-American. We're wondering if, in this Tiger Woods era in golf, we're watching a Barack Obama trend coming in politics -- not the notion of Obama as the great Democratic hope, but a complexifying of ethnic and other identities where skin color means many things or nothing, and the Irish vote may mean less than, say, "defense moms" or "Log Cabin Republicans." For example: What does it mean -- if anything -- when pundits and pollsters talk today about the Latino or black votes as monolithic entities? What about Cubans in Miami, who supposedly vote Republican? There are still many Italian-Americans in Rhode Island. But is there an Italian vote there? Or an Irish vote in Boston? MoveOn.org, Focus on the Family, NARAL and the NRA may have replaced local, ethnic political machines, but have they supplanted them? Which of our identities matter most when we pull the voting booth curtain closed behind us?

David Slavitt

Former candidate for Massachusetts state legislature Author, Blue State Blues

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