Ramadan Moms
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Fascinating squib in the Detroit Free Press about the rising clout of Muslim voters in the midterm elections this year. The key stat:
The [get-out-the-vote] effort was so organized that Muslim taxi drivers in northern Virginia took the day off to ferry Muslims to the polls, said Imam Mahdy Bray, a speaker at the [Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America] convention. Volunteers also made phone calls to Muslims in Virginia to urge them to vote, he said.
As a result, Democrat James Webb ousted incumbent Republican George Allen by about 9,000 votes in a race in which 50,000 Muslims went to the polls -- 47,000 of them voting for Webb, Bray said.
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Posted by B Feiler at 10:45 AM
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