[Uncle Chip]

The Maine R Chairman wasnt calling for anything like this. He was just making excuses.

Perhaps -- but the reports of blacks voting up in Maine counties may have been true -- just miscontrued. They were probably Somalis who had just moved up there and they stood out for obvious reasons.

[sickoflibs]

RE :’Perhaps — but the reports of blacks voting up in Maine counties may have been true — just miscontrued. They were probably Somalis who had just moved up there and they stood out for obvious reasons.”

I agree with tsowellfan's analysis of Somalis’s views towards American blacks on the other thread. I have seen that myself here with other African immigrants. Ironically both groups feel a kinship to O, but I think the immigrants do more.