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Brittain33
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« on: November 08, 2008, 10:52:32 AM »
I'm pretty sure the answer is no. However, a coworker says yes, citing CQ. ?
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« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2008, 10:53:50 AM »
Isn't that Andre Carson guy in OH a Muslim??  But he won a special a few month ago
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« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2008, 10:55:30 AM »
Quote from: Bergen County Sucks on November 08, 2008, 10:53:50 AM
Isn't that Andre Carson guy in OH a Muslim??  But he won a special a few month ago

That's it! Thank you. I got hung up looking at newly elected members.
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« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2008, 11:02:13 AM »
Quote from: Bergen County Sucks on November 08, 2008, 10:53:50 AM
Isn't that Andre Carson guy in OH a Muslim??  But he won a special a few month ago

Isnt Andre Carson from Indiana?
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« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2008, 12:20:52 PM »
Quote from: Sen. AndrewCT on November 08, 2008, 11:02:13 AM
Quote from: Bergen County Sucks on November 08, 2008, 10:53:50 AM
Isn't that Andre Carson guy in OH a Muslim??  But he won a special a few month ago

Isnt Andre Carson from Indiana?

Yes, the Indianapolis seat.
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« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2008, 01:08:35 PM »
Awesome. Now let's work on electing some seculars and gays.
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« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2008, 01:25:38 PM »
Quote from: Obama is my President. on November 08, 2008, 01:08:35 PM
Awesome. Now let's work on electing some seculars and gays.

Jared Polis is the first openly gay man elected to Congress as such, following in the footsteps of Tammy Baldwin.
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« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2008, 01:38:52 PM »
And Pete Stark is an atheist!
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« Reply #8 on: November 08, 2008, 02:21:16 PM »
Quote from: Obama is my President. on November 08, 2008, 01:08:35 PM
Awesome. Now let's work on electing some seculars and gays.

The use of the word "secular" as a euphemism for "atheist/agnostic" has always bugged me.
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« Reply #9 on: November 08, 2008, 02:48:56 PM »
Quote from: Председатель Захар on November 08, 2008, 02:21:16 PM
Quote from: Obama is my President. on November 08, 2008, 01:08:35 PM
Awesome. Now let's work on electing some seculars and gays.

The use of the word "secular" as a euphemism for "atheist/agnostic" has always bugged me.
Why? It's also faster to type.
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« Reply #10 on: November 08, 2008, 02:59:03 PM »
Only one extra Hispanic (Ben Lujan) and no extra Blacks this year, though.
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« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2008, 03:54:06 PM »
Quote from: grow wise, grow ill, and die on November 08, 2008, 02:59:03 PM
Only one extra Hispanic (Ben Lujan) and no extra Blacks this year, though.

Just out of curiosity, do you know how many blacks there are in congress that don't represent a majority/plurality black seat?

And Pete Stark is an atheist and I believe there are many more congressmen who are not very religious either, and probably agnostic, they just haven't "came out". For that matter I personally don't think John McCain is religious at all.
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« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2008, 04:03:59 PM »
Quote from: Obama is my President. on November 08, 2008, 02:48:56 PM
Quote from: Председатель Захар on November 08, 2008, 02:21:16 PM
Quote from: Obama is my President. on November 08, 2008, 01:08:35 PM
Awesome. Now let's work on electing some seculars and gays.

The use of the word "secular" as a euphemism for "atheist/agnostic" has always bugged me.
Why? It's also faster to type.

Because the meanings are different.
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« Reply #13 on: November 08, 2008, 04:30:27 PM »
Earlier I thought there was a net increase of two women in the House, but I realized I wasn't factoring in open seats retained by their party. Anyone know what that actual number was?

And, as pointed out, there is one additional openly gay person in Congress (Polis) and one new Hispanic (Lujan).
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« Reply #14 on: November 08, 2008, 05:01:38 PM »
Quote from: Sheliak5 on November 08, 2008, 03:54:06 PM
Quote from: grow wise, grow ill, and die on November 08, 2008, 02:59:03 PM
Only one extra Hispanic (Ben Lujan) and no extra Blacks this year, though.

Just out of curiosity, do you know how many blacks there are in congress that don't represent a majority/plurality black seat?
Also discounting seats with narrow white pluralities (not sure quite how many of those there are - three to five or thereabouts) and California seats with Hispanic pluralities - not majorities - and more Blacks than Whites (all three LA Black-held seats are like that), that'd be four: Andre Carson in Indianapolis, Em Cleaver in Kansas City, Gwen Moore in Milwaukee and Keith Ellison in Minneapolis.
A list that, oddly enough, includes both Muslims.

From 2000 to 2004, it was just Julia Carson.
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« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2008, 05:13:46 PM »
Quote from: Verily on November 08, 2008, 04:30:27 PM
Earlier I thought there was a net increase of two women in the House, but I realized I wasn't factoring in open seats retained by their party. Anyone know what that actual number was?

So far as I can tell:

Female gains from males:
AZ-01
FL-24
IL-11
ME-01
NV-03
PA-03

Male gains from females:
NM-01
OH-15 (if Stivers' lead holds)
OR-05
VA-02

So a gain of 2 or 3 female reps.
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« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2008, 06:00:46 PM »
We need more Muslims elected to congress, I would vote for any Muslim that ran
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