Which Presidential Campaigns Are The Worst For Diversity?
Posted by Phoenix Woman on June 15, 2007
Turns out that of the eight major presidential campaigns studied by DiversityInc.com — Clinton’s, Obama’s, Edwards’, Richardson’s, Biden’s, McCain’s, Giuliani’s and Romney’s — Giuliani’s is 100% white. Furthermore, even the least-diverse Democratic campaign, that of Joe Biden, was still twice as diverse than that of the most-diverse Republican campaign, which was John McCain’s.
Also telling: While DiversityInc.com was able to get extensive feedback from the people involved in the Democratic candidates’ campaigns, nobody on the Republican side would talk to them despite repeated efforts on DiversityInc.com’s part to contact them.
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Mercury Rising 鳯女 
Blog of the Moderate Left » Diversity in the Presidential Campaigns said
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MEC said
My “Not Surprised” streak remains unbroken.
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Warren Terra said
The raw data – or at least a value for n – would be really nice. My guess from the graph is that McCain and Romney each have two recognized minorities on staff (because the two small bars are of equal thinkness, the other possibility is that each has a small number of minorities equally split between two categories, and this seems less probable). But it’d be nice to know.
I’d guess the raw numbers are at DiversityInc, but I don’t subscribe.
Phoenix Woman said
The thing is, Warren, that while all the Democratic campaigns were happy to work with the DiversityInc people (and DiversityInc is a respected outfit; they’re not some bizarro wackjobs like, say, Pam “Atlas Shrugs” Oshry, to whom John Bolton gave two interviews), they got nothing — nothing — from any of the Republican campaigns. Nothing.
You don’t need to see a stat breakdown to figure out what that means.
GWB said
Where does the George W. Bush administration place in this study, and why is his missing from this report ?
Charles said
Um.
Perhaps because he’s not a candidate, GWB?
George Bush has had great diversity if one judges by the skin color or gender of his nominees. Unfortunately, they’re perfectly homogeneous when it comes to corruption.
Phoenix Woman said
Game, set and match to Charles. As always. :-)
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