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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the point of this post?

It's treading on the line of being offensive.

What's the white opinion these days and who is the white leader? Who is the Latino leader and what do all Latinos vote for or against? What about those Chinese? Who is influencing the Chinese vote in America and who do they follow?

Or is it just black people that can be grouped into "black people do this and follow this person because they have no opinions or brain cells"
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If you don't believe that leaders sway their followers with their leadership, then you haven't been paying attention to politics in America during your lifetime.  While I agree that there is no single leader for any large demographic group, there are leaders who promote a certain platform and that large contingents of certain demographics will follow that platform.  For example, while there is no single black leader, there are several black leaders that promote a certain platform of thought and many blacks will follow.  These can vary from  larger offices such as the POTUS, to black religious leaders (think Harry Jackson and the Maryland anti-gay marriage coalition), etc.

Likewise there are many white leaders who definitely promote platforms that many follow.  On the conservative Tea Party side you have those like Rush Limbaugh Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin.  On the liberal side, you have those like President Obama, John Stewart and Arianna Huffington.

Who is influential for the Chinese Vote?  S. B. Woo.  You may not have heard of him, but over 100,000 Asian Americans have.  He is the leader of a political action committee with over 100,000 members who tries to bring issues of important to Asian Americans to the forefront.  80-20 has worked to shift the Asian vote to vote as close to a block as possible.  The name is based on the idea that aim to get 80% of the Asian vote to vote in line with their stance and to use this block vote to get Asian concerns addressed by candidate politicians.  And 80-20 has shifted traditional Asian voting patterns in California and national races.  It isn't all Asians, but it's a very large block vote that will vote based on the arguments that Dr. Woo proposes for the Asian demographic.

There are gay leaders and Hispanic leaders.  And while they don't establish a 100% following within their demographic, they have a large amount of influence within their demographic.  This doesn't make any group monolithic, but it does mean that large groups of those demographics do vote as a block.  Often people will choose someone who they feel represents their demographic (whatever they choose to identify with) and will agree with those stances.  You are naive if you don't see and understand that this happens.[/quote]

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