This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 421: Party Politics in America at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

GOP's New Diversity Push

New faces for the Republican Party:

From the West Coast to the East Coast, in some of the smallest and largest states in the nation, the party is currently fielding an unusually diverse crop of serious statewide candidates drawn from the seemingly endless list of constituencies the GOP lost in 2008—notably women, Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans and young people.