How many times do the media say Carole Mosely-Braun was the FIRST BLack Senator ... or the more educated media add the phrase FIRST African-American Senator since Reconstruction.
So who/what was Edward Brooke?
Illinois media now say Barak Obama is the ONLY hope of a Black again joining the all white club.
So no hope in SC or GA ?
On gender, they are ignorant that both Rockefeller and Goldwater forces were ready to compromise on the 3d candidate in the Republican primary, Margaret Chase Smith, if neither Rock nor Gold had a majority at the convention.
Do they also say that she's the first black Senator to lose re-election?
-PJ