No African-Americans in Next U.S. Senate

[Hissyspit]

Source: CNN

No African-Americans in next U.S. Senate

By: CNN Special Correspondent Soledad O'Brien

New York (CNN) – Despite record election achievements by African-Americans in the House, the United States Senate will not have an African-American in its ranks.
All three black Senate candidates, Kendrick Meek (D-FL), Alvin Greene (D-SC) and Mike Thurmond (D-GA) are projected to lose tonight. The only incumbent black senator, Roland Burris (D-IL), is retiring.

Only six black senators have served: three Republicans and three Democrats, including the future President Barack Obama (D-IL). There have been 118 voting members of Congress who are African-American. This year the GOP has 14 African-Americans on the ballot, any one of which could become the first black Republican in the house since 2003.

There are 41 African-American Democrats in Congress of which most are running in majority black districts. CNN projects Alabama sent its first African-American woman to Congress tonight with the election of Terri Sewell in the state's 7th district. She is a Democrat.

Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/02/no-african-americans-in-next-u-s-senate/

[democrank]

1. Pathetic

and it says so much about us.

[Auggie]

2. +1

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. +2

[Hosnon]

9. +3. And it says so much about the House of Lords, sorry, the Senate. nt.

[obxhead]

4. Greene in SC got a far higher percentage of the vote than I

thought he would get. Last numbers I saw last night were 35%.

[crikkett]

6. Holy cow! That's really surprising

I saw an interview with him. He was um, vapid.

[obxhead]

7. To say the least in a kind way.

It would have been interesting to see him make it.

[crikkett]

5. uh-oh.

should I feel guilty or something?

[nyy1998]

8. Not a shocker, none of those candidates were expected to win.

Not that I'm defending the fact that we have 0 blacks in the Senate, but apparently we're not doing a good job of nominating good black candidates in winnable races(although Meek does appear to be a good candidate in bad race in a bad year).