This Week on Issues - 11/07 & 11/09

Friday, November 7 @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 9 @ 12:30 PM

ISSUE ONE: Post-Election Analysis
On Tuesday, voters cast their ballots and elected Senator Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.  We gathered a panel to analyze national and statewide results, such as the strength of the minority vote and the influence of technology in this election.

Guests:
Sean Foreman, Ph.D., Barry University
Casey Klofstad, Ph.D., University of Miami
Robert Watson, Ph.D., Lynn University

Comments

[the producer]

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[Soraya Demetric]

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[Jarrett]

When discussing the comparison between Obama's votes and those of Amendment 2, it is important to remember two things:
1 - MANY Gay People (including myself and higher ranking campaigners) carried the vote for Barack Obama in South Florida.
2 - Black people are not nearly as responsible for the Amendment passing as the White Evangelicals would like us to believe... Black people were not the one's driving the "Yes On 2" Campaign... that was white Evangelicals from out-of-state churches and they had undue influence over our community.

[floridamich]

just watched your show. regarding the "gay marriage" ammendment and florida being "center right" even though the state voted obama in:
many voters cannot understand the verbage of these ballot issues.....cmon lets think about folks without a college degree, in some cases without a high school education reading through the ballot. it's time to put the ammendments in layman's terms. I believe if the ballot wasn't so confusing to read that ammendment would have passed.