Don't apologise. You can start by telling everyone why Republicans wouldn't elect a black man after Barack Obama. What stops them? What association could they possibly make between Obama and another black man? That they wouldn't have made before? Did Obama make it impossible for another black guy to gather the votes from the right?
It's almost like you aren't reading my posts because you really don't know what you're talking about. It's not as easy as simply finding a black senator or a female senator. It also involves incumbents and general political pragmatism. Why would Democrats
find a new black candidate to run against Boxer and Feinstein when they've proven they can win elections for 20+ years? Then there is Massachusetts, where blacks make up 6% of the population, and there has
never been an elected black Senator or Representative. A state where John Kerry held his office for 20+ years, and then appointed a
black man. A state where Kennedy held it for 40 years and ran mostly unopposed. New York hasn't had any black senators, true, and yet it has had dozens of black representatives. In contrast New Jersey with only 13% of blacks, a black man is currently senator. Again, it's far more complex than saying "find a black dude and get him elected". A party isn't going to leave a senator elected for 20+ years to go find a black man to elect. A party also isn't going to pour millions of dollars on a long shot when it could just back the incumbent. Doing so would actually
be playing the token game.
Who said a candidate needed to be wealthy? I said it needed to have a ****load of money. That really is a fact. Hell, let's actually see how much of a fact that is using
your example (Obama):
United States Senate election in Illinois, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Then, in the actual race, Obama won against a carpetbagger - Alan Keyes, terrible fella - who was pretty much picked because Republicans had nobody to run against Obama. So, in short Obama's election as Senator can be mostly attributed to the terrible **** up that were the 2004 Illinois Republicans, him spending his way to winning the primary and the fact that he ran a campaign against a guy who was literally
flown in last minute. The rest, as we know it, is history.
What a false dichotomy. Lol, Democrats have elected the overwhelming majority of the black politicians in Congress for the past 100 years. That you're trying to make it seem as if their lack of Senators make Democrats uninterested in black candidates is pretty laughable and ignorant of actual American politics. What is more telling is that you've
avoided the fact that Republicans are pretty much
irrelevant when it comes to finding electable minorities in general. Why is that?