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Sharpton gets zero percent in Iowa -some black leaders see 2004 as chance to get even for 2000
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Posted on 01/20/2004 10:08:33 AM PST by chance33_98
Sharpton gets zero percent in Iowa
By Lester Holloway
Presidential candidate Revd Al Sharpton faced a blow to his hopes of taking the White House when he scored an embarrassing zero percent of the vote in Iowa
The civil rights leader came bottom of the poll in the first stage of the race to choose the Democratic challenger to George W Bush for the US general election later this year.
Sharpton had decided not to campaign in Iowa but instead concentrate on other states, however the Iowa results will not have done much to create the impression of a snowballing campaign.
Sharptons zero percent score was behind Wesley Clarks 0.1 percent. Senator John Kerry won the poll, with fellow Senator John Edwards coming second. The frontrunner, former Vermont governor Howard Dean came a disappointing third.
The only other black contender for the White House Carol Moseley Braun, had pulled out of the race to back Dean.
Some African American leaders see the 2004 election as a chance to get even after thousands of black votes were discarded in Florida in the 2000 election which George Bush controversially won.
Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition for Black Civic Participation (NCBCP), said: "I think there is still a lot of anger out there after what happened in Election 2000, peoples votes not getting counted. This is the very first presidential election that well be faced with."
Voter registration campaigns involving the black churches have reported success in signing up 2,000 voters in just two weeks. They aim to bolster the black vote in Florida by 15 percent, threatening to win the state for the Democrats.
TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; iowa; sharpton
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To: chance33_98
Revd Al Sharpton faced a blow to his hopes of taking the White House What hopes???
To: chance33_98
This reads like satire until the last few sentences.
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:12:35 AM PST
by
untenured
To: chance33_98
This might not be pc, but what % of Iowa's population might be considered black?
And to then compound my social gaffe, what % of those might consider voting for Sharpton?
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:12:35 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: chance33_98
Some African American leaders see the 2004 election as a chance to get even after thousands of black votes were discarded in Florida in the 2000 election which George Bush controversially won. Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition for Black Civic Participation (NCBCP), said: "I think there is still a lot of anger out there after what happened in Election 2000, peoples votes not getting counted. This is the very first presidential election that well be faced with."
The only votes "discarded" in Florida was the military vote...
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:12:54 AM PST
by
2banana
To: chance33_98
Presidential candidate Revd Al Sharpton faced a blow to his hopes of taking the White House The author is under the delusion that Al is a serious candidate? Well, I suppose if you were reading the mainstream press on the other side of the pond, that's possible as the unmentionable does not get written about.
To: chance33_98
Al Sharpton's participation in this whole circus just raises the comedy factor.
Let's keep him in there.
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:16:02 AM PST
by
Allegra
To: chance33_98
Zero percent for Sharpton. I'm shocked! And here I thought that he and Mosely-Braun were serious contenders.
To: chance33_98
"This is the very first presidential election that well be faced with." What the heck does that mean?
To: chance33_98
"I think there is still a lot of anger out there after what happened in Election 2000, peoples votes not getting counted. This is the very first presidential election that well be faced with." I'm angry that this BS is being perpetuated.
Hearings were held by the Civil Rights Commission. Not one provable case of anyone being prevented from voting was found.
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:23:01 AM PST
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: leadpencil1
What the heck does that mean?Nothing. That can be said for anything Melanie Campbell says.
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:25:38 AM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Don't ask me, I'm a AFQT group VI.)
To: Allegra
Al Sharpton's participation in this whole circus just raises the comedy factor. Dontcha just love this stuff? I had the TV on in the background last night and all of a sudden I hear this lunatic screaming and yelling in spanish. I was like WTF is that? I look at the tube and it is Howard Dean delivering a harangue. That guy is stark-raving hilariously insane. This is (was) the Dem's frontrunner? I was in tears.
To: RightWingNilla
It is surprising that A didn't do better..You'd think that he'd have stood out from all the other candidates, especially with all the snow in Iowa..
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:29:00 AM PST
by
ken5050
To: chance33_98
Some African American leaders see the 2004 election as a chance to get even after thousands of black votes were discarded in Florida in the 2000 election which George Bush controversially won.How can they write stuff like this without attribution?
To: GSWarrior
Because there is no retribution to prevent them from saying it.
To: dirtboy; dead
"Get even" for Florida oh, you mean they want to avenge themselves on the
Democrats and the
media who persist in portraying them as
too stupid to PUNCH HOLES in a PIECE OF PAPER, and in trying to
USE them to steal an election, and in
pretending that NOBODY KNOWS that
EVERY recount has vindicated the election of President Bush?
Yes, who can blame them for wanting payback for that?
Dan
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:35:31 AM PST
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: CaptRon
Can't they just..."move on?" :)
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:36:47 AM PST
by
TheBigB
(I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.)
To: GSWarrior
How can they write stuff like this without attribution? Because it is a lie and not attributable to anything.
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posted on
01/20/2004 10:38:31 AM PST
by
sinclair
(When government needs money they ask: What's in YOUR wallet?)
To: chance33_98
Were they illegal?
To: GSWarrior
The votes discarded where actually the absentee military votes, overwhelmingly Republican, blocked by Algore & Co.
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