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Paul Ryan claims that he and Romney lost because of the unexpected "urban" voters ("urban" being a dog whistle for "black"), rather than because of his policies (which exit polls showed were central for many voters)

This might be useful or interesting to those exploring race and presidential elections. Fowl language

I wonder how many of them actually voted and have reasonable opinion, except racial slurs.

We often think of voting demographics in terms of "minorities," which makes groups of "white voters" an invisible norm. This article asks the question of why white people are proportionally voting for Romney.

This article is a very short article but I found it really interesting because it kind of goes along with the Border Patrol article that we just read. In the article it described how Border Patrol agents are trained to use lethal force and this news story puts that idea into plain view because no one truly knows what happened and if this was a case of racism or something else.

Nice Job Sarah--it also shows the continuing nature of the conversation on immigration--one that is at the forefront of politics in this election year.

We often don't see a lot on how Asians fit into the US culture and the battles they face although we should. Here is an artlicle on how ballots are being translated into Asian languages for the up-coming election.