activity. and then you add to that another layer which is, there is a special boost for a lot of white students going to college because of the legacy boost for admissions where if you are the son or daughter of an alumnus, you get into college. that s another hidden layer. it acts like a grandfather clause and has a racial repercussion. i don t think it is designed to but it does. in total, when we know how important it is to have that college history, among other factors. we have a history where we now that race interfered with that is really telling. i think it goes back to the question of, what do we want to do about it. this year, the supreme court is going to consider whether to make affirmative action completely illegal so you can t consider that. the other program i mentioned, legacy boost for predominantly white alumni children, is not on the table for being eliminated. that history is still good. it is not even up on the docket. on this issue of history, it
weeks. this race has gun 1 out of 3 votes are being cast. if he continues to stay down and people are voting at these rates, then even if he has a surge, even if he has a wonderful first debate, even if obama makes a gaffe and things tighten, a lot of votes will already have been cast reflecting the state of the race today. the church of god in christ, 200, 300,000 people will be in st. louis on november 6th for their convocation. so early voting is extremely important. so you can get it done. undecided voters are also some of the people least likely to tune in to debates. usually people that watch debates are the people most tuned in and people that have made up their minds. some of the people i speak to on the ground, it does feel different from 2008 in a very important degree. 2008, it was a lot about hope and change and the idea about making history. electing a person in african
can i propose a theory that might defend mitt romney? let s hear it. perhaps he hasn t heard of the invention of the internet where the things we say can be cataloged and redistributed to the public for their assessment. seriously, how is it possible? he is running a 19th century campaign as if inventions like videotape do not exist and he thinks he can say whatever he needs to say before a particular audience. i this i the american voter has gotten much more savvy. people are following this stuff. ordinary people in this election are drive ag ling a lot of thes. mitt romney, a hypocrite. people see that gaffe. it is not that he is like ted kennedy said, he is not pro-choice. he is multiple choice. we are all political junkies